"If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian." - Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Why Would an Unbeliever Root for the Religious Right?
OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto answers:
I suppose it is because I am put off by self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and contempt for democracy and pluralism--all of which characterize the opposition to the religious right.
Maybe the unbeliever wants to believe but can not. Maybe they wish so desparatly that they could but know that they can not so for the sake of others they encourage belief
Maybe the unbeliever wants to believe but can not.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they wish so desparatly that they could but know that they can not so for the sake of others they encourage belief
Maybe the unbeliever wants to believe but can not.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they just think it's all silly.