Levi Bryant Secularization has left a void, argues philosopher, Levi Bryant, and what does one fill that void with? Bryant writes: "I find myself thinking that politics is what came to fill the void opened by the collapse of theology. Where the humanities used to be organized around theology and knowledge of God and advancement of his glory, the humanities encountered a void in the movement towards secularization. Something was needed to function as a telos or justification of our work. Politics became that replacement." (read the full article here ) My first reaction is that politics is a poor replacement for the glory of God. Anyone watching the debates must at least be marginally aware that the political system (even one so brilliant as the American system) is as flawed as the people who play a part in it. So, to replace the infinite perfection of God with such a thing makes little sense. But if one's goal is to find an alternative to God, then politics provi...