Our endless nature of spiritual searching
- sciart0
- Apr 26
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "What’s the point of believing, anyway? Nearly two decades after Christopher Hitchens published “God Is Not Great,” faith seems to be making a comeback.
Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, has argued for faith as both a social and an existential good, our orientation toward something larger than ourselves as something central to our human identity.
Meanwhile, religious faith has found not only a generation of new adherents but also new gurus, with influential figures—ranging from the self-help impresario Jordan Peterson to the tech-titan Peter Thiel—claiming interest, and potential faith, in traditional orthodox Christianity.
Do we seek out something greater because we’re desperate to believe in something after death—the false hope Karl Marx derided as the opiate of the masses—or, when it comes to the seeming God-shaped hole in so many of our hearts, is there in fact a "there there?"'