Ross Douthat: Everyone Should Believe in God

I am not religious, so it is not my place to dictate to Christians what they should and should not believe. Still, if someone has a faith worth following, I feel that their beliefs should make me feel uncomfortable for not doing so. If they share 90 percent of my lifestyle and values, then there is nothing especially inspiring about them. Instead o

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believing in the God to whom adherents ascribe those values. That said, I find the righteous certitude some atheists have about their beliefs to be unnervingly similar to that of many religious fundamentalists. I’m also not all that impressed by atheists who automatically deem anyone with spiritual inclinations a moron. These folks often assume the

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I want us to better understand our position in the world relative to religion, particularly how our steadfast (if misguided) belief in secularism feeds into the idea of Western supremacy.