Jenny Holland

Joined the Peace Corps straight out of college in the 60s.

Very idealistic and globally minded.

And he described the secular catechism as focusing on three points.

One is that science and God are fundamentally incompatible.

Two is that humans are animals and our consciousness dies with our animal bodies.

And three was that religion universally, including Christianity, but all religions are human inventions that are

meant to help us reconcile with the reality of death.

And there's no evidence to support Christianity or any other religion.

And he is finding that now, in his 70s, I suppose, if not a bit older,

that he's finding what he now calls this very unreflective.

So the piece is very sort of mild mannered, not to say milquetoast.

I don't want to be unkind.

But he describes it sort of being nudged along the way and in ways that I find fairly familiar.

My own and I end up in a similar position, very open to Christianity and

but I haven't fully converted or anything like that.

And he's kind of at the same point.

But where I am coming from, what's driving me towards it are much more visceral realities that he does not mention in this excerpt, like the transing of children and the crazy other terrible things that we've done to children and young people under a so-called liberal paradigm.

and secular paradigm.

But he's kind of coming to the same conclusion, which is that humans have a fundamental need for not just a spiritual element, which we do, but also a sort of benign moral authority that kind of oversees us all.

So I thought that was a very interesting take.