The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

by Andrew Klavan

Subtract the Almighty and what was the purpose of it? It was just an empty temple, its foundations resting on nothing, its spires pointing only toward the dark.

In fact, by the time I was fifteen or so, I had begun to understand that Christianity was central to everything I had been reading.

I was only a boy still and I didn’t understand much, but I began to understand that at the heart of all Western mythology, all Western civilization, all Western writing, all Western thought, and every Western ideal, there stood a single book, the Bible, and a single man, Jesus of Nazareth. I decided I ought to find out more about them both.

And like Hamlet, the postmodernists had dismissed the notion of absolute morality. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” But there was one big difference. Hamlet said these things when he was pretending to be mad. My professors said them and pretended to be sane.