Is the Secular Age Mystical or Atheistic?
On Conscience and Self-Indulgence
The Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig said that “Mysticism and atheism can shake hands.”
Atheism says there is no God, while mysticism says God is everywhere, especially, in myself. Wallace Stevens captures this atheistic-mystical handshake when he writes, “God is in me, or else is not at all.”
The path to the secular age was paved by religious people o…
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