In his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, writer David Foster Wallace said, “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” Wallace went on to warn that most of what we choose to worship will eat us alive. When we experience a feeling of oneness, it might fill that hole of meaning, purpose, and belonging. It may validate who we are. But it blinds us, causing us to narrow so much that we can’t see beyond the thing that we are fused with. And
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