{"id":12816,"date":"2026-03-18T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:34:33","slug":"why-i-am-not-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Not an Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12816\" class=\"elementor elementor-12816\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0710878 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0710878\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-36e6c25\" data-id=\"36e6c25\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79a5a0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"79a5a0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773843807.png?fit=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" title=\"1773843807\" alt=\"1773843807\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-382ff76 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"382ff76\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-33cd0e1\" data-id=\"33cd0e1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a8171d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0a8171d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Building on Solid Ground<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b75853 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b75853\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e3a122a\" data-id=\"e3a122a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccf22c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ccf22c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Lived experiences often provide the strongest rebuttals to intellectual doubts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f35e94 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7f35e94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Review by Katy Carl<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f32b469\" data-id=\"f32b469\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ead7890 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ead7890\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Christopher Beha\u2019s new intellectual memoir, <em>Why I Am Not an Atheist<\/em>, could equally well have been titled <em>Apologia pro vita sua<\/em>. Not for nothing does the novelist and believer evoke the recently canonized saint in his book\u2019s opening gambit: John Henry Newman\u2019s spirit of patient, painstaking, gentle, but unrelenting inquiry pervades the entire text. So does the saint\u2019s epistemic modesty. Beha carries out a Newmanesque service to the truth by identifying two strains of contemporary thought, scientific materialism and romantic idealism, and exploring why each once seemed plausible to him and continue to seem plausible to many respectable minds. By doing justice to these philosophical positions, not in mere popular formulations but in full-bore engagement with the thinkers behind them, Beha makes it possible for us to see how a serious thinker might grow beyond them.<\/p><p>In <em>Why I Am Not an Atheist<\/em>, Beha sets out not so much to tell us why he believes the two most common Western worldviews are <em>false<\/em>, as to tell us why <em>he<\/em> believes they are false. That is not to say that the book falls into a problematic subjectivism or perspectival relativism. On the contrary, it proceeds from a few bedrock convictions central to almost all forms of advanced human thought, Western or Eastern, theistic or not:<\/p><ul><li>Some sort of reality exists, either within or outside our minds.<\/li><li>We can reliably know at least some of that reality through our senses and our intellects (however we conceive of the latter).<\/li><li>Some knowable realities are visible (concrete, physical) and some are invisible (abstract, metaphysical). This remains true even outside of belief in a deity; many mathematical concepts remain abstract, even though they have reference to quantity, shape, and other properties that can be attributed to matter.<\/li><li>Our knowledge of both the physical and the metaphysical cannot help but imply something about how we ought to conduct ourselves in relation to the visible world, including our own bodies and those of others. In other words, ethical right and wrong are among the abstract realities that exist.<\/li><\/ul><p>Of course, there is much more to Christian reason and revelation than this. From a Christian perspective, you can start out from these premises and still wind up in some very tall weeds indeed. That is why many treatments of modern philosophy from a perspective of faith tend either to straw-man the arguments against Christian metaphysics or perform a kind of genetic-fallacy undercutting them, extrapolating wildly from modern thinkers\u2019 positions to show how their godless conclusions are responsible for all the world\u2019s current evils. Beha, admirably, does neither. Instead, giving the key figures behind scientific materialism and romantic idealism their due allows him to evaluate these worldviews on their own terms. And his evaluation reveals cracks in their edifices that hint at something stronger beneath: a prior condition upon which all their assertions rest but which both worldviews persist in denying. It is as though two windows of a house were to deny the existence of the ground on which the foundation was built.<\/p><p>Beha\u2019s intellectual explorations eventually take him to where that ground of truth lies: the experiential fact of our having been created and continually held in being by a loving Creator, one who remains firmly and patiently bemused with all that can be said against Him, continuing to provide that prior condition with unconditional persistence. This is not where the search ever begins, though. That beginning is rooted in the lived experience of loving and being loved: put another way, the ultimate ground of intellectual search can\u2019t be merely intellectual but must go beyond what the mind alone can hold. Once he accepted the reality of love as a starting point, Beha writes, \u201cI could tell that my foundation was sound, I just wanted to know what was underfoot.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e73cff5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e73cff5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f08444c\" data-id=\"f08444c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e71cec2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e71cec2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"78\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FF-Quotation-1-e1680069268368.png?fit=78%2C78&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-396\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8126383 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8126383\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Put another way, the ultimate ground of intellectual search can\u2019t be merely intellectual but must go beyond what the mind alone can hold.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1801381\" data-id=\"1801381\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8853a16 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8853a16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>What is underfoot turns out to be God\u2019s love itself, the precondition of all human love. Beha\u2019s considered treatment of a key verse for this concept (1 John 4:7-12, \u201cBeloved, let us love one another, for love is from God . . . \u201d) will help many readers wake up to the implications of treating God and love as identified with one another.<\/p><p>Love, as Beha beautifully writes, \u201cis the meaning of the world, the sum total of God\u2019s teaching and his great demand of us.\u201d This truth becomes unavoidably clear to him through falling in love with the woman who would become his wife, an experience of life as gift that drives him to seek \u201ca framework for . . . gratitude,\u201d a place \u201cto put it that might make sense of it.\u201d This search floods him with openness to faith and with new appreciation for the ways in which the different but no less real love of family and friends had sustained him through the years when he had sought his life\u2019s meaning mainly through the mind. This story pictures love as not only a foundation beneath us but also a kind of \u201csuperabundant light\u201d above. In this telling, love breaks us out of our closed circles, opens wide the prison of self, forces us to face our own inconsistencies and self-contradictions, and burns away illusions and self-deceptions. If simple human love can have such an incendiary effect, how much more a love that becomes ever more closely conformed to the creative generosity of the Father and the ultimate self-giving of the Son on the Cross?<\/p><p>The memoir\u2019s epilogue reminds me of a remark I heard Beha make once in an online panel discussion for Penn\u2019s Collegium Institute, \u201cLiterature for a Wounded World,\u201d during Covidtide. Because it has been several years since this panel took place and there is no recording, I will have to paraphrase; the remark had to do with the difference between <em>sentimentality<\/em>, forced feeling in art, and <em>sentiment<\/em>, or unadorned feeling united meaningfully to thought. What I took from it was this: Though we are right to resist art that makes manipulative use of feeling to force us toward a conclusion, we should never shy away from stories that simply ask us to accept emotional experiences as they are. In that spirit, this book\u2019s epilogue is far from literary <em>sentimentality<\/em>, but it has no fear whatever of <em>sentiment<\/em>, or genuine thoughtful feeling.<\/p><p>While courting an admirable clarity and completeness about \u201cthe best that has been thought and said\u201d for and against Christian faith in the modern era, Beha stops short of overtly trying to persuade anyone else to believe as he does. This will be seen as a courtesy by those of his readers (and let us hope they are many) who are not also his co-religionists. In its unruffled humility, it may also ultimately make itself felt as a supremely persuasive move.<\/p><p>Though Christians are sometimes critical of presentations of faith that propose rather than impose\u2014 \u201cHere is what works for me; perhaps it will work for you, perhaps not\u201d\u2014we ought not to be so. Those sorts of critiques, by which we presume to tell our fellow believers how they ought to express their journeys to and their reasons for abiding in belief, probably silence far too many faithful, worthy voices. <em>Why I Am Not an Atheist<\/em> has successfully risen above both that intramural tendency in the Christian community and the hostile mockery of the self-styled New Atheists whose arguments now sound, by comparison, very shopworn. Let us not, then, stifle the Spirit (cf. 1 Thess. 5:19), but find the courage likewise to contribute however modestly to the cloud of witnesses.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-270cf96 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"270cf96\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ef6817\" data-id=\"1ef6817\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4044cab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4044cab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Katy Carl<\/strong> is editor of Word on Fire Luminor, writer in residence at the University of St. Thomas&#8211;Houston, and author of <i>As Earth Without Water<\/i> (Wiseblood, 2021) and <i>Fragile Objects<\/i> (Wiseblood, 2023).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-03d529c\" data-id=\"03d529c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c256d4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c256d4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><strong>Why I Am Not an Atheist<\/strong><\/em> by Christopher Beha was published by Penguin Press on February 17, 2026. Fare Forward appreciates the provision of a review copy. You can purchase your own copy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/703237\/why-i-am-not-an-atheist-by-christopher-beha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lived experiences often provide the strongest rebuttals to intellectual doubts. 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