even of hardened atheists—all of these explain why religious belief keeps reasserting itself even in the heart of the secular West. Actually, it is quite natural to human beings to move toward belief in God. As humanities scholar Mark Lilla has written: “To most humans, curiosity about higher things comes naturally, it’s indifference to them that must be learned.”61 Strict secularism holds that people are only physical entities without souls, that when loved ones die they simply cease to exist, that