Our current cultural fascination with creating our own identities is beginning to show the same weakness that my grandfather faced fifty-ish years ago. Creating our own identity rests upon the foundation of our inability to be God...
“Nearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not religious, and 2% volunteer they are “both.” Although the vast majority of U.S. adults have one of these orientations toward the nonphysical world, the 18% who say they are neither religious nor spiritual is twice the proportion Gallup measured when it first asked this question in 1999.”