Charles Murray

It's early days yet, but the United States has a history of great religious reawakenings, and it's conceivable we are at the outset of another one.

Yeah.

Well, I still believe, I believe that whatever,

God may be, he is unknowable.

And I make the comparison that it's within my ability to understand God in the same way it's within my dog's ability to understand me.

And he can't.

He cannot know what I'm doing when I sit in front of my computer monitor and tap at a keyboard.

And similarly, I and every other human being, I believe, is faced with the same problem in trying to understand God.

But, and in that sense,

I think that human beings in Judaism and Buddhism and Taoism and other great religious traditions have gotten hold of deep understandings about the nature of the universe and the nature of the beings in that universe.

There are different parts of the elephant.

And to me, Christianity presents the most comprehensive and the most persuasive evidence for

The outlines of a God that even though we don't understand him, and I shouldn't use him or her to describe it, we see through a glass very dimly indeed.

But I think Christianity's glass is a little bit clearer than everybody else's.

Well, I'm reminded of me talking to Michael Novak, the Catholic social philosopher, years ago.

And I said, you know, I find a lot to admire about the Catholic Church, Mike, but why is it that you insist on retaining just absolutely unbelievable doctrines like transubstantiation?

And Michael looked at me with that gentle smile of his, and he says, God needs a church that can talk to everyone.

And I guess I would say to William Thomas Chatterton, who I also like, I would say, Thomas, God also needs a way to speak to overeducated intellectuals like you, and so you go ahead and you figure out your way, but don't diss the way that God is speaking to other people because they can be equally valid even though one is not to your taste.

I've enjoyed it.

Thank you, Emily.