The Politics of God
By MARK LILLA, NY TIMES
Added: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:00:00 UTC
Thanks to Mark for the link.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/magazine/19Religion-t.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/magazine/19Religion-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print (print version, all on one page)
The twilight of the idols has been postponed. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems. War and revolution, class and social justice, race and national identity — these were the questions that divided us. Today, we have progressed to the point where our problems again resemble those of the 16th century, as we find ourselves entangled in conflicts over competing revelations, dogmatic purity and divine duty. We in the West are disturbed and confused. Though we have our own fundamentalists, we find it incomprehensible that theological ideas still stir up messianic passions, leaving societies in ruin. We had assumed this was no longer possible, that human beings had learned to separate religious questions from political ones, that fanaticism was dead. We were wrong.
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