He simply calibrated his writing to an audience of young seekers, not those he believed were already sated. Foster argued that while no religion is a finality, all express a uni-fying experience of humankind, namely, the longing for divinity. “God is but another human name for Eternal Yearning,” he explained.92 It was Nietzsche who recognized the peculiarly desperate nature of modern man’s spirituality. Modern science successfully challenged the toppled absolutes of religion, showing God to be a “human fantasy,” but not the ultimate absolute in man:a yearning for transcendence.
