The end of secularism is nigh - UnHerd

All of which should serve as a wake-up call to the West that it is not only its financial, economic and military muscle that is currently atrophying. So too is its ability to market its culturally conditioned assumptions as universal. The concept of the secular is not, as many in West like to think, a neutral one. Quite the opposite. As the very word betrays, it derives from the distinctive theology and history of Latin Christendom: for ā€˜saeculumā€™, the word given by the Romans to the endless flux of things, was counterpointed by St Augustine and his heirs to the religio, the ā€˜bondā€™, that, so Augustine had taught, joined the pilgrim Church on its journey through the centuries to the radiant eternity of the City of God.

I thought of the XKCD standards comic, where people try to unify things by a standard but just add another competitor in the process. I wonder if thatā€™s how the future will see secularism. Admittedly many different religious systems have already passed away (which is different from the standards comic), and Iā€™m sure there are other issues I havenā€™t thought of.