day no. 16,277: materialism is the sacredness of the secular

"Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics. Vaccination, in its hundred years of experiment, has been disputed almost as much as baptism in its approximate two thousand. But it seems quite natural to our politicians to enforce vaccination; and it would seem to them madness to enforce baptism." -- G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

Materialism is a religion complete with baptism, membership, catechism, creed, discipline, sacrament, sabbath, and regularly scheduled meetings. The only difference between Materialism and the religions listed in a Comparative Religions textbook is that those in the book know that they are religious, while the materialists would be shocked, even offended, to find out that they were. Materialists are skeptical of all religions, which is their version of the sinner's prayer and altar call. Skepticism is their catechism. They can throw shade at anything other than their own reflection. Materialism is the worship of worshiplessness. It is the faith of faithlessness. If is the sacredness of secularism. 

"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it." -- G.K. Chesterton