And as for the vaunted triumph of liberalism, what
about “the misery wreaked by racism and sexism, the sordid history of
colonialism and imperialism, the generation of poverty and famine”?
Only by ignoring all this and much more can the claim of human progress
at the end of history be maintained: “If ever there was a pious myth
and a piece of credulous superstition, it is the liberal-rationalist
belief that, a few hiccups apart, we are all steadily en route to a
finer world.”
–God Talk – Stanley Fish Blog – NYTimes.com.

I’m always on the lookout for religion’s latest counter-arguments,
the new rhetorical approaches that God People are constantly
fine-tuning for use in pimping the righteousness of faith (and for
demonstrating the moral dissoluteness of agnostics like myself). There
isn’t an inherently irresolvable metaphysical challenge that comes
close to wasting as much of the world’s time and energy as this
particular one. It’s the intellectual equivalent of the eternal R&D
quest for a baldness cure: you just never stop being surprised at how
many different ways men can find to fail at growing hair.

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