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Fantasy that heals and magic that enslaves
Miguel Sanmartín writes that the loss of faith in God can lead people to believe in anything, potentially replacing divine transcendence with superstition or harmful ideologies. Drawing on the ideas of G.K. Chesterton and Malcolm Muggeridge, Sanmartín suggests that a spiritual hunger not met by God may result in an existential void filled by idolatry or what T. S. Eliot called strange gods.
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