How ironic, we immigrants sigh to ourselves, that we can turn on the tap to clean water at whatever temperature we like, but we can’t put up a poster of the Holy Mosque in our cubicle.
Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett—the new atheists are often out of their depth when it comes to real engagement with religious ideas. And what if the new atheism is not so much about theology as about politics?
Jeff Chu finds himself a little less strident when talking with people on both sides of the topic of homosexuality and faith. What changed his approach was a year-long journey around the country…
Obama ran on a platform of change, but he’s been unwilling to mess with the status quo on either war or the economy. As the crisis deepens, the language of psychology trumps the language of faith, even on Main Street.
“That’s the good news of Christianity for me. It’s not that you can be happy and whole, but rather that life is crap and you don’t know the answers. It’s good news to be freed from the oppression that there’s something that’s going to make it all better.”
