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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.

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    Wrong on Atheism

    In an interview of 30-odd questions, only 3 of which dealt at all with atheism

    That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that he was asked three questions about atheists and botched them all. Not exactly batting .400, is he? No wonder atheists want to write in about this interview.

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