When institutions we used to support succumb to scandal, policies we used to endorse lead to unintended outcomes, and long-established scientific theories are questioned, it can leave us wondering what to do next. Holding on to failed ideas too long is the root of much of the world’s suffering. When all our idols are gone, what is left over? What can give us hope in the midst of uncertainty? I write this book to propose a model for viewing the world. It is the only thing I have found to make sense of my life and some of the things I’ve been through. I believe I have done nothing short of discovering a form of morality that even relativists can endorse, a form of spiritual awareness that even atheists can understand, and the first step to solving every societal problem. Perhaps I exaggerate.

Starting with politics and economics and then generalizing to psychology, culture, biology, ecology, physics, math, morality, and the structure of reality itself, I systematically destroy every idol chapter by chapter - every policy, every theory, every institution, until nothing is left - except there is something left...

That which is left over when every incomplete, inconsistent thing is subtracted can only be described as God. The terminology doesn't matter. The bottom line at the end of the day is that God always wins and that God alone saves.

The cover art represents life. Life is a vexing puzzle. When nothing we try to solve life seems to work, we might be tempted to smash it with a hammer.