I read too far into the comments to find this very correct take. Why is he singling out religion? Because there's a new pope? Why not write this piece every time a new president or prime minister comes to power?
I read too far into the comments to find this very correct take. Why is he singling out religion? Because there's a new pope? Why not write this piece every time a new president or prime minister comes to power?
Sometimes I think that the anti-religious impulse just boils over sometimes and an atheist has to vent. (My advice would be, just get over it: religion is here to stay.)
Yea, he has a very narrow view on religion that is informed by his demographic (western, educated, male, white). I'm glad of his writing but he's not really an authority on religion so maybe this isn't the topic for him
Well, fwiw, there are plenty of western, educated, male, white writers, authors, philosophers and even theologians who do not have narrow views on religion. Most of my understanding of Christianity is based on the writings of what would be called these days white male writers, partly because I don't limit my reading to the last couple of decades.
Once Christianity spread outside of the Hebrew world, it was pretty much Romans, Greeks, maybe a North African, Arab or ethnic Caucasian here and there, and then Europe, until the 20th century. Finally we got liberation theology, Black theology, feminist theology etc.
(In the meantime, the women mystics have always been kind of fun.)
I read too far into the comments to find this very correct take. Why is he singling out religion? Because there's a new pope? Why not write this piece every time a new president or prime minister comes to power?
Sometimes I think that the anti-religious impulse just boils over sometimes and an atheist has to vent. (My advice would be, just get over it: religion is here to stay.)
Yea, he has a very narrow view on religion that is informed by his demographic (western, educated, male, white). I'm glad of his writing but he's not really an authority on religion so maybe this isn't the topic for him
Well, fwiw, there are plenty of western, educated, male, white writers, authors, philosophers and even theologians who do not have narrow views on religion. Most of my understanding of Christianity is based on the writings of what would be called these days white male writers, partly because I don't limit my reading to the last couple of decades.
Once Christianity spread outside of the Hebrew world, it was pretty much Romans, Greeks, maybe a North African, Arab or ethnic Caucasian here and there, and then Europe, until the 20th century. Finally we got liberation theology, Black theology, feminist theology etc.
(In the meantime, the women mystics have always been kind of fun.)