The late Christopher Hitchens worked the last years of his life as a professional atheist, going from debate to debate to catechize devotees of his brand of fiery, witty godlessness. Hitchens’ belief about the God he denied There’s a curious element to Hitchens’ debate appearances and to his writings on the subject of atheism as […]
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Review (Part Six): The Experience of God – Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Having explained how we approach the natural only over the interval of the supernatural, Hart turns to the incoherency of materialism. Absolute truth The human longing for truth involves a loyalty to an ultimate ideal, and that ultimate ideal beckons to us from beyond the totality of beings. We would not care at all about […]
Read more...Review: Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett
This book is tedious. It’s tedious if you’re a theist who has considered the point of view that religion is only an evolutionary phenomenon. It’s probably even more tedious if you’re an atheist who has already concluded that religion is a “spell” that needs to be broken. Dennett undertakes to analyze religion from a scientistic […]
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