Sometime in the last few years, we passed peak atheism and the shine went off godlessness in the modern world
To apply that analogy to the most astounding election cycle in recent memory: We’re all gripped by Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House, but deep below the surface, a rightward cultural shift is the real story.
And inside that course-correction, one unnoticed story — a mere chip of submarine ice, really — may have an outsize, long-term impact.
I’m talking about the tentative signs of a revival in faith among intellectuals, the most stubbornly secular class in the West. It’s hard to capture exactly when a zeitgeist changes, but it seems that sometime in the last few years, we passed peak atheism and the shine went off godlessness in the modern world.
If true, this newfound elite faith is the culmination of a process that took a couple of centuries, and whose unfolding is part of the Divine Hashgachah bringing the world to a better place.
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