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… Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Chesterton famously noted that “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” Here is a corollary: When people abandon authentic religion, they can turn anything else into one.  A favorite is politics, which is as belief-based as you can get. Give up on faith, and you get hooked on beliefs. This piece is filled with evidence in support of that thesis.