What would happen if a Danish agnostic spent a year thinking about God?

Today we're going to discuss a recent book called My Year with God by Psychology Professor and 2018 Danish Humanist of the Year and leading public

intellectual, Dr. Sven Brinkman. Sean, this is, I found this book absolutely fascinating.

But I think for our listeners, you know, my year with God might sound like a year-long Bible reading program.

That's not that's not what he's involved with here.

Tell us what the book is about and how does he how does he actually spend a year with God?

So I only heard about this because the publisher reached out to me and asked me to endorse

it because it was not written in English it was just translated into English. He's from Denmark. So it's not on my

normal radar, but I was fascinated by this idea of an agnostic who wanted to think

about God for a year, seeing where this journey would lead him.

So here's a couple quotes that just kind of capture what he's doing.

He says the idea was to find out if the religious dimension to life might have relevance

to someone like me. a scientist from a secular background.

So he's just curious how relevant it is to him as a scientist.

He says, I hope my diary, his writing, to forge a path between religious fundamentalism, which he attributes to kind of a certainty, literalistic interpretation of the scriptures that he says kind of scares him.

Overly dogmatic.

Overly dogmatic and outright rejection of a religion.

So is there a path forward in between?

But what's fascinating is I'm always reading a book asking what are the assumptions

of the person reading his book. He approaches religion functionally. So he's not primarily

asking the question, does God exist? Can I know? Is there

evidence for God? That comes up at times in this, but really he's asking the question is there value from religion in

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