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blogg hittade jag Terry Eagletons recension av Alain de Bottons bok “Religion for Atheists”. Eagleton bjuder som vanligt på guldkorn:
"Religious faith is reduced to a set of banal moral tags. We are invited
to contemplate St Joseph in order to learn "how to face the trials of
the workplace with a modest and uncomplaining temper". Not even the
Walmart management have thought of that one."
"What the book does, in short, is hijack other people's beliefs, empty
them of content and redeploy them in the name of moral order, social
consensus and aesthetic pleasure. It is an astonishingly impudent
enterprise. It is also strikingly unoriginal. Liberal-capitalist
societies, being by their nature divided, contentious places, are
forever in search of a judicious dose of communitarianism to pin
themselves together, and a secularised religion has long been one bogus
solution on offer. The late Christopher Hitchens, who some people think is now discovering that his broadside God Is Not Great
was slightly off the mark, would have scorned any such project. He did
not consider that religion was a convenient fiction. He thought it was
disgusting. Now there's something believers can get their teeth into …"
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