The other reason to keep reading is a personal one. You may find that the descriptions of “fullness” and other such intuitions resonate with your own experience. But what if they don’t? You may say, “I feel no need for God in my life.” Faith, however, is not produced strictly by emotional need, nor should it be. Many of the secular thinkers we have cited have rather reluctantly moved toward religion not out of emotional need but because faith in God makes more sense of life than nonbelief. As
