An Atheist Changes His Mind On Faith, Sorta
Mr. Thompson starts the article thus:
■ As an agnostic, I have spent most of my life thinking about the decline of faith in America in mostly positive terms. Organized religion seemed, to me, beset by scandal and entangled in noxious politics. So, I thought, what is there really to mourn? Only in the past few years have I come around to a different view. Maybe religion, for all of its faults, works a bit like a retaining wall to hold back the destabilizing pressure of American hyper-individualism, which threatens to swell and spill over in its absence. (ATLANTIC: https://tinyurl.com/26vafur9)
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“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” -- G.K. Chesterton
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𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐒 𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 (some more often than others):
𝑀𝑌 𝑂𝐿𝐷 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑇𝑈𝐵𝐸: https://www.youtube.com/@PapaGiorgio200/videos
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