The Evangelical Atheist

Note: This series was originally published in April of 2010, and is here compiled into a single post.

Part I: Why Theism Matters

Easter Sunday seems a fine day to begin a series on God. In doing so, I offer response to a growing phenomenon I call evangelical atheism. This is aggressive advocacy for a lack of belief in anything “godlike.”

Some readers may scoff at my discussing the religious in a predominately political forum. It is therefore incumbent upon me to begin this series with an exploration of why theism matters in our political discourse.

Beyond mattering, it is my contention spirituality serves as the deepest foundation of political philosophy. After all, religion and politics are essentially two approaches to the same underlying question; how ought we live? How one answers the question politically will depend almost entirely upon their answer to a quintessentially spiritual question. What is the nature of man?

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