I just saw an ad for a bumper sticker proclaiming: “Atheists don’t start wars.” In our local newspaper, a recent letter to the editor stated: “Nonbelievers are the most politically defiled people in America, yet we neither create nor fight wars and kill people.” And do you remember John Lennon’s song, “Imagine”? Imagine there’s no [...]
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What Is Christianity For Anyway?
Posted in Union with God, Weakness, Power on Jun 1st, 2009
Stanley Fish, in a recent New York Times column, tackles those he calls the “schoolyard atheists” who insist that religion is either irrelevant or harmful – and in either case, false. He does this in the context of a reflection on Terry Eagleton’s book, Reason, Faith and Revolution. When Christopher Hitchens declares that given the [...]
“What word would you use to describe life?” Josh says to his daughter. “Peace,” she replies. “Or perhaps joy.” After a moment she asks him, “What about your own word for life?” “You wouldn’t want to hear it.” No, she probably wouldn’t. The word he is thinking of is “futility.” Josh, you may remember, is [...]