Dean Koontz is the man. I read everything he writes. He is THE most life affirming popular author out there. Koontz wrote a great foreword for the new book coming out by one of my favorite bloggers Wesley J. Smith of Secondhand Smoke at First Things. Koontz starts:

When we self-blind ourselves to the Truth of the world’s magnificent complexity and mystery–of which we are a fundamental part –we do not only cut a thin wedge from the roundness of existence and convince ourselves that this one theory or ideology is the whole Truth. In our narcissism, we also insist that those who refuse to wear our blinders are villainous and depraved and corrupt. In this regard, an ideologue is no different from a member of a religious cult who has carved a sliver off the body of Christian theology and has made it his end-all and be-all. But the entire truth of a vast forest is not embodied in a single leaf…

It continues from there. I encourage you to read the rest here.