Posted by sigismund on August 8, 2011, at 23:12:56
In reply to A feral elite » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on August 8, 2011, at 21:51:32
I have always been interested in and vaguely sympathetic to religions, feeling that they are like languages of the spirit and worth preserving in a similar way.
I have just finished listening to a religion program which featured John Lennox, Oxford professor of mathematics talking about Hitchins and Dawkins, though really I have been so unimpressed by that form of atheism and agreed with the German professor he mentioned who said that they are seen there as simply to trivial to mention (they having a different experience of atheism). If there is any sense in this, it comes from something like osmosis, because I have not read any Dawkins since The Blind Watchmaker, which I didn't much like, and he seems to have got worse.
Even so, the plague of our times is fundamentalism, of every stripe.
What was this in aid of?
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