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157. Why Believe?

2025/6/15
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John Dixon: 现代社会中，尽管科学技术不断发展，但超自然现象和宗教信仰依然存在。人们对精神体验的需求并未减少，甚至有所增加。许多人自称是“精神上的，但不是宗教上的”，这表明人们对精神层面的追求并未消失，只是形式上有所改变。宗教在社会中的作用依然重要，它提供了一种解释世界和人类存在的框架，满足了人们对意义和归属感的需求。 Ross Douthat: 现代社会陷入了一种“颓废”状态，人们对进步和变革失去了信心。宗教的衰落并没有带来预期的理性与和谐，反而导致了社会的分裂和精神的空虚。人们开始反思宗教的价值，并重新审视其在个人和社会生活中的作用。科学的发展并未完全消除超自然现象的存在，许多人依然经历着无法用科学解释的精神体验。这些体验挑战了唯物主义的观点，促使人们重新思考意识和现实的本质。

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Despite Hume's prediction, supernatural experiences persist in our modern world. Many identify as "spiritual but not religious." This episode explores the rationality of taking the next step into formal belief systems.
  • Increased reports of supernatural phenomena
  • Rise of "spiritual but not religious" individuals
  • Vatican's new guidelines on supernatural phenomena

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The 18th-century philosopher David Hume famously predicted that, as the world grew more rational and scientific, people would stop having supernatural encounters.

But that’s not what has played out.

We might live in a secular age, but we continue to have seemingly divine experiences.

Lots of people now describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious”, but taking that next step - that leap of faith - into a formal belief system might actually be more rational than not.

  • (00:00) - - Intro

  • (00:51) - - Modern miracles

  • (05:56) - - Ross Douthat: Columnist and podcaster

  • (07:10) - - The Decadent Society

  • (12:11) - - Secular regrets

  • (19:33) - - The Logos of creation

  • (38:42) - - The Pathos of near-death experiences

  • (45:08) - - Buff Dickson's near-death experience

  • (50:35) - - More miracles

  • (58:50) - - Join a religion - any religion!

  • (01:10:04) - - The three problems with religion

  • (01:17:19) - - Why believe in Jesus?

**CREDITS

**Undeceptions is hosted by John Dickson, produced by Kaley Payne and directed by Mark Hadley. 

Alasdair Belling is a writer-researcher.

Siobhan McGuiness is our online librarian. 

Lyndie Leviston remains John's wonderful assistant. 

 

Santino Dimarco is Chief Finance and Operations Consultant. 

Editing by Richard Hamwi.

Our voice actors today was Yannick Lawry. 

Special thanks to our series sponsor Zondervan for making this Undeception possible. 

Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com - letting the truth out.