Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Great Regulars: The God Debate has been so ferocious

on all sides that one asks with trembling: So what's wrong with Ditchkins?

Ignorance, to start, says [Terry] Eagleton. "Rage against fundamentalism is completely understandable," he says, "but Ditchkins really thinks that all religious people are fundamentalists. So it's no longer about religion--they've created a straw man to hit at. It's religious criticism on the cheap. They need that straw man just as fundamentalists need hatred."

from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: A new entry in the God Debate

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