Caught Up in God

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 emergence [...]

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“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 the ex-Christian with whom I [...]

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