The Secular Bible, Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously
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978-0-511-33733-8
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2005
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loginToday’s secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about reli-gion, and even less desire to learn. This is problematic insofar as their sense ofself is constructed in opposition to religion. Above all, the secularist isnotaJew,notaChristian,notaMuslim, and so on. But is it intellectually responsi-ble to define one’s identity against something that one does not understand?Andwhat happens when these secularists weigh in on contentious politicalissues, blind to the religious back-story or concerns that inevitably informthese debates?
