Both worldviews offer a sense of meaning, but the difference lies between the ‘created’ meaning that secularism offers and ‘discovered’ meaning, as claimed by religion. Secularism and religion are competing worldviews the real question is which makes the most emotional, rational and cultural sense. Neither religion nor secularity can be demonstrably proven – they are systems of thinking and believing that need to be compared and contrasted to one another in order to determine which makes the most sense. (215) Indeed, to say “You must prove God to me” is to choose and believe in a form of rationality that most philosophers today consider naïve. …that all varieties of secularism are sets of beliefs, not simply the absence of faith. The book divides into three sections: the first, ‘Why Does Anyone Need Religion?’ sets out the main thrust of the argument upon which the book is built: Making Sense of God seeks to address this In other words, it is the prequel to The Reason for God. Keller’s previous bestseller, The Reason for God (2008) was also written for those who aren’t Christians, which “has been helpful to many, does not begin far enough back for many people” (from the blurb). Keller pushes back against the idea that secularism is rational, evidence based and non-biased, while religion is the opposite. The provocative thesis of Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Sceptical is that secularism as well as religion involves faith. “Believers and nonbelievers in God alike arrive at their positions through a combination of experience, faith, reasoning, and intuition” (2).
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