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From God To Nation To Doubt
- As America secularized its cultural hope shifted from God to nation and human progress.
- Keller notes wars and human failures then undermined confidence in human-led progress.
Dismissing Death Feels Dishonest
- Secular responses that dismiss death as 'not a big deal' (Epicurus) feel inauthentic to deep human intuitions.
- Luke Ferry argues treating death as mere non-experience fails to address what gives life meaning: love.
Child Rejects 'Becoming Fertilizer' Explanation
- Peter Kreeft recounts a secular mother telling her seven-year-old that his dead cousin became fertilizer, which horrified the child.
- The boy screamed, 'I don't want him to be fertilizer,' exposing secular answers' emotional limits.