I recently stumbled across the following article over at The Free Press entitled How Intellectuals Found God by Peter Savodnik, and found it to be interesting and informative, along with referencing additional books and videos that I also found worth consideration. So I thought I’d share it here, in the hope that others find it interesting and informative as well. (INSIGHTS readers are well aware that I’ve struggled with finding/conceptualizing “God” myself and, though I don’t agree with everything posited in the article, I’m always open to considering relevant thoughts, ideas, and points of view. Thus, the article:
How Intellectuals Found God
“…something profound is happening. Instead of smirking at religion, some of our most important philosophers, novelists, and public intellectuals are now reassessing their contempt for it. They are wondering if they might have missed something. Religion, the historian Niall Ferguson told me, “provides ethical immunity to the false religions of Lenin and Hitler.”
“There is something inevitable about this reassessment, Jonathan Haidt, the prominent New York University psychologist and best-selling author, told me. (Haidt’s books include The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.) “There is a God-shaped hole in every human heart, and I believe it was put there by evolution,” he said. He was alluding to the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who wrote extensively on the nature of faith.”
“We evolved in a long period of group versus group conflict and violence, and we evolved a capacity to make a sacred circle and then bind ourselves to others in a way that creates a strong community,” Haidt told me.
Ferguson added that “you can’t organize a society on the basis of atheism.”
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