False Narrative: You Are An Accident

The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy describes a view (not his own view, because Tolstoy was a Christian) of the human person, based on a theory of reality he saw emerging in his day. It is a narrative that maintains that everything is secular (meaning there is no God and no spiritual dimension to life or to humans). In his book

A Confession, Tolstoy named this view of the human being: You are an accidentally united little lump of something. That…