A couple weeks ago I noted, without any kind of deep analysis, a David Brooks essay about his experience of faith, and how it involved random emotional feelings of transcendence and nothing about perceiving the actual nature of reality.
OnlySky, Bruce Ledewitz, 3 Jan 2025: What David Brooks’s search for God can teach secularists, subtitled “Brooks’s essay is the kind that often exasperates nonbelievers. But is there something of value to secular civilization in his God-optional conclusions?”
Does he mean, is there some kind of rhetorical ploy that seculars can use to similarly appeal to peoples’ subjective senses of awe and meaning?
