AHA: I didn’t realize that the Sanchez post I talk about below is responding to this post from Gene Healy and thus ultimately this one from Will Wilkinson. I strongly encourage you to read both those extra links. Wilkinson offers a confessional view from inside the meat-machine, somewhere between irony and pure existential need I think, a materialist atheist in church. Healy (who is not the Gene I talked about in my post) and Sanchez hit more the argument and reasoning side than the personal experience side, but all are worth your time, and be sure to check the comments at Healy’s site.