Our New Religion Isn't Enough

Having been immersed in the age of authenticity, and having swallowed the hook of youthfulness, we overlook that what ultimately upends faith is the loss of the plausibility of transcendence and the presumption that our world is only a natural and material place. In the age of authenticity, the self is buffered, the world is disenchanted, and God i

We struggle with MTD because we have not realized that we’ve lost the essential nutrients of the believability of transcendence.

We have entered the age of authenticity, and youthfulness has become a central strategy to achieve the authentic. Rather than subtraction, we’ve added layers of authenticity and youthfulness, creating forms of cultural and social life where “the God gap,” for many, simply isn’t there.

Living in the legacy of the countercultural strategy of youthfulness, MTD is a perfectly shaped religious construct to inhabit. As good bourgeois, we affirm the moral, wanting our kids to be good. As bohemians, these moral conceptions don’t need to be deep, for if they’re more substantive, or tied to the wisdom of the past, they may block our indiv