But very little of the human mental landscape is ever remotely like a reflection in a clear, undistorting mirror. Julian Huxley wrote of a human being as a transforming mill, “into which the world of brute reality is poured in all its rawness, to emerge . . . as a world of values.” We can try to make ourselves think as rationally and with as broad a scientific reach as possible; it is a good thing if we do. But we will also always live in a world of symbols, emotions, morals, words, and relationships. And that will often mean a porous border between non-religious and religious ways of relating
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