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The Trouble with Religion

CERTAINTY IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FAITH

John Garvey

Religion, as it is ordinarily practiced, reconciles us-not to one another, in any interesting or profound way, but rather to the world as we would like to encounter it. If we are more or less liberal, it takes us easily into the world of liberal thought and its satisfactions, and if we are conservative, ditto. As someone once said of country music, when you’re drunk in (...)


 

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