Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm Shane Morris. We hear a lot these days about re-enchantment, by which people

usually mean that Richard Dawkins' style secular materialism is going out of style, being replaced by

a renewed fascination with spirituality, the occult, and

the supernatural.

But this resurgent spirituality is often deeply unsurious, treating actual religious doctrines

like items on a buffet.

That's insulting to those who take religion seriously, but it's also potentially

dangerous to those welcoming and promoting this kind of re-enchantment.

Consider a new podcast called Soul Boom, hosted by actor Rain Wilson, who most will know as Dwight from the office.

The show's rainbow unicorn logo tells you about how seriously spiritual matters are being taken.

Wilson has welcomed guests from across the belief spectrum in the last year to explore, quote,

the potential for spiritual revolution, to instigate ealing transformations, and to delve into what

it means to be human with a body and soul, whatever all that means.

The description fits nicely within Wilson's Baha'i faith, which teaches that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God.

According to Baha'i writings, the revealed religions all ultimately lead toward the same deity, divine educators who gave us the major faiths, Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster,

Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and so on, each revealed a part of that truth. But the whole truth

is ultimately found in uniting their teaching, or the parts of their teaching we like.

It's the sort of claim that goes down smoothly for those with post-Christian pluralistic

sensibilities. In fact, many modern Westerners already profess essentially this, without calling

themselves Baha'i. But there are a lot of problems with the all religions lead to God creed.

One is that it fails to take any religion's actual doctrines seriously, because, of course,

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