The Fourth Discourseman Our age has a uniquely modern understanding of time. How we view the world around us, how we tell our own stories, how we grapple with social and ethical issues – all these are infected with what I want to call “the tyranny of the present”, the assumption that what is modernContinue reading “Christianity, conservatism, and the tyranny of the present”
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Lessons from early-modern atheism
The Fourth Discourseman It’s something of a truism to observe that today belief in God is less ubiquitous than it was in past incarnations of our society. I could cite Pew Centre research that seems to show the decline of religion in the United States, or similar data for European countries; but the main pointContinue reading “Lessons from early-modern atheism”
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