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 [...]