First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 1st, 2008
Long, long ago, in the years just preceding the Second World War--as Germany was overrunning Czechoslovakia and annexing Austria, and as Neville Chamberlain was preparing to travel to Munich to sort these things out--the novelist E.M. Forster wrote an essay called "What I Believe."
He had the misfortune, he said, of living in an "age of Faith" (by which he primarily meant faith in things like communism and National Socialism) and found it "extremely unpleasant really ... bloody in every sense of the word." He himself did not believe in Belief; but, pressed to say what he did believe in, he ...
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