Reasonable Faith Podcast I Thought I Didn't Need God
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Feb 2, 2026 A political thinker reflects on a decades-long spiritual search and surprising turns toward faith. They discuss how modern comforts and scientific assumptions can obscure existential questions. The episode explores mathematical beauty, the contingency question, regress and the Kalam, and how to conceive of God beyond human images.
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Perceptual Deficit In Spirituality
- Charles Murray describes a lifelong spiritual deafness he calls a perceptual deficit in spirituality.
- He tried transcendental meditation and New Age ideas but remained unmoved until later nudges shifted him toward Christianity.
Don't Attribute Unbelief To Inability
- Prevenient grace implies God enables every person to come to saving faith if they do not resist.
- William Lane Craig says failure to believe arises from willing resistance, not a psychological inability.
Modern Comforts Mask Existential Need
- Western modernity's comforts and distractions can shield people from existential despair that often opens them to God.
- William Lane Craig argues Pascal's point that confronting deep questions like death can bring people face-to-face with meaning.
