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Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate | Terry Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the superstitious view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity.There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular nor for many conventional believers. Instead, Eagleton offers his own vibrant account of religion and politics in a book that ranges from the Holy Spirit to the recent history of the Middle East, from Thomas Aquinas to the Twin Towers."
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⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
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A new look at the god debate, that doesn‘t take sides!
Featuring the mockery of Ditchkins😂
I wasn‘t a big fan of the concluding chapter, but I think the books makes some good points on all sides of the God spectrum.
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I just love the old fashioned looking cover (also featuring the new handmade Iranian dress I recently bought). 👗 ❤️
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#religion #science #educational

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“Faith-any kind of faith-is not in first place a matter of choice. It is more common to find oneself believing something then to make a conscious decision to do so-or at least to make such a conscious decision because you find yourself leaning that way already. This is not, needless to say, a matter of determinism. It is rather a question of being gripped by a commitment from which one finds oneself unable to walk away.”

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Aijaz Ahmad on Al-Qaida terrorism, “They have seen so many countless civilians getting killed by the Americans and the Israelis, that they do not deem their own killing of civilians as terrorism, or even comparable to what their own people have suffered. If anything, they would consider themselves counter-terrorists.”

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“It was the west which helped radical Islam to flourish by recruiting it as a force against so-called communism-a label used to describe any country which dared to espouse economic nationalism against western corporate capitalism.”

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”Since branding others as inferior because of their race is no longer acceptable, regulating them to the outer darkness because of the religion may serve instead.”

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In the words of Theodor Adorno, “It would be advisable, to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.”

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“Can a world incapable of feeling so many of its inhabitants really be described as mature?”

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“There is indeed progress-as long as we bear in mind that the civilization which manifests it is also one which seems bent on destroying the planet, slaughtering innocent, and manufacturing human inequality on an unimaginable scale.”

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“The choice between West and East is sometimes one between which particular squalid bunch of murderous fanatics one prefers to back.”

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“Radicals are those who believe things are extremely bad with us, but that they could be feasibly much improved; conservatives believe that things are pretty bad with us but that that‘s just the way it is with the human animal; and liberals believe that there is a little bit of good and bad in us all.”

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I love how this book takes no sides. It comes at it from all angles. I see myself agreeing and disagreeing on both sides. I can‘t wait to finish and recommend this to people seriously interested in the god debate, wether they are theist to atheist or anything else in-between.