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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Religion is poetry

The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Sunday, July 20, 2008 06:52 PM

    Wishful thinking

    If religion were just a matter of listening to soothing music in a beautiful cathedral while humbly pondering the unknowable, I'd be all for it. Unfortunately, the picture Mr. Cares paints is far from the reality of real world religious belief and practice. I'm sure there are millions of believers around the globe who would be shocked to hear their deeply held faith (for which they would kill or die) is merely a form of benign navel-gazing.

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