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Talk:Godless: The Church of Liberalism (view source)
Revision as of 23:31, June 23, 2008
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"... liberalism holds every single characteristic of a religion: an atheistic one." vs. "Liberalism has its own cosmology, its own explanation for why we are here, its own gods ..." An atheistic religion with gods? [[User:EBrown|EBrown]] 19:15, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
"... liberalism holds every single characteristic of a religion: an atheistic one." vs. "Liberalism has its own cosmology, its own explanation for why we are here, its own gods ..." An atheistic religion with gods? [[User:EBrown|EBrown]] 19:15, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
:I haven't read the book, but it seems from that sentence alone that she's trying to say liberalism have their own targets of religious worship, even if it is not really a "god". Maybe she's referring to environmentalism and the earth? [[User:WilliamH|WilliamH]] 19:29, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
:I haven't read the book, but it seems from that sentence alone that she's trying to say liberalism have their own targets of religious worship, even if it is not really a "god". Maybe she's referring to environmentalism and the earth? [[User:WilliamH|WilliamH]] 19:29, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
::But if it has a god, or multiple gods, it's by definition not atheistic. [[User:EBrown|EBrown]] 19:31, 23 June 2008 (EDT)