I try not to say things that are untrue, so I looked up a biography of Foucault, to check my memory.
I don’t have time to read the whole thing, but will pass along the link, and a quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
“I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.”
Michel Foucault, 1983
Ponder a world constrained in such ways–and by the way atheism is safely implied. Can anyone wonder that with our best minds so stupid that we are in such a mess?
If you look at the structure of our society, the mental and social structures, understood as massive complex systems governed by strange attractors, you cannot but wonder what but habit is holding us together. Religious communities, of course, have their creeds, and that is why America has not failed, but everything being taught in our best schools leads to moral confusion, doubt, and darkness.
Science is not a light: it is a method, and the people responsible for using this method have systematically cut out large sections of possible human knowledge. They have cut out psi, specifically, and the survival of death, both of which are indicative of the utility of believing the word God does in fact have a referent, even if we don’t yet understand just what it is, how to search for it, and what it will ultimately wind up meaning.