There are quite a few problems with your assertions, such as the fact that it&#x27;s hard enough to gather good statistics on mental illness in the present time, much less over the past 200 years, and the idea that secular humanism should somehow concern itself with &quot;cosmological catastrophes&quot; that humans can&#x27;t do anything about.<p>Finally, it&#x27;s not clear that your last sentence really tells us much about the nature of altruism.  What <i>can&#x27;t</i> be turned into a matter of faith by someone whose business is selling faith?