Wesley Huff

Right now, trying to figure out what's going on.

How do I actually find out the answers to a lot of these questions that just go beyond the here and the now that I'm experiencing?

This is what individuals like James K. Smith called the dynamics of disenchantment.

where people are struggling with these transcendent questions, questions that are metaphysical, that go beyond just the here and the now in the world.

Why is the three pounds of gray matter in my brain able to comprehend the complexities of the universe?

How do I come up with a solution to that problem?

So I think that's part of it.

I think it's kind of moving on in a world that just is probably more messy than it's ever been.

A lot of countries, the UK, Europe, Canada, America, all of these Western countries, they were founded on these Judeo-Christian ethics of foundations that come from the Old and the New Testaments, what we call the Bible.

And a lot of people kind of attempted to divorce them.

the religious aspect from the societies, and societies became less and less overtly religious in those natures.

And then a lot of people saw that their parents were no longer going to church, like the Bible wasn't part of kind of the household any longer.

And I talked to a lot of young people who look at that and they say, in almost like a rebellion against their parents,

They're now interested in that.

Their parents rebelled by disassociating from religion.

And now I wonder if there's part of a rebellion in kind of looking back and trying to reclaim some of that religious stuff.

Expressive individualism.

I think it rose.

That's the terminology in sociological literature that they refer to it.

But I think you touched on a good point in that as we've removed God, part of the intellectual enlightenment was that we would move away from the shackles of religiosity and the concept of a creator, and that would lead us into a utopia.