Carl Trueman: We Made Ourselves Gods And Became Less Than Human

Carl Trueman says we didn't drift away from God by accident. Once everything important in your life became a choice, external authority stopped being believable. God is the biggest external authority there is.

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Carl Trueman at Grove City College about his new book, The Desecration of Man. We get into expressive individualism, why worship turned consumerist, what the internet did to the word community, and the online push telling kids to cut off their parents.

He also lays out the argument at the heart of the book: only human beings can reach for godhood, and every time we try, we end up smaller. Pascal, the A-bomb, and AI all repeat Genesis 3.