But maybe this doesn’t describe you. Maybe you consider yourself “secular” — an atheist, perhaps, or at least agnostic, and generally just completely unconcerned with God or religion or church or any of that. It’s not like you’ve “left” the faith or killed God; he never existed in the Brooklyn you call home. Indeed, in the circles you run in, matters of spirituality or transcendence just never arise. The existential world is flat. You’re over it. Let’s move on. Sure, we’re all trying to “find” significance or “make” meaning and vaguely trying to figure out just what the hell this is all about.
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