Blessed Are the Meek

Religion, atheism, and the dangers of knowing the truth

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Humans yearn to make sense of the world. Throughout recorded history and before, humans have been in awe of the cosmos. We have struggled for a closer connection to the world— to better understand it and, ultimately, to better understand our place in it. As Rupert Shortt puts it, we are “truth-seeking — and truth-discovering — beings.”…