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Culture & Barbarism: Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism

by Terry Eagleton October 5, 2009.

Print: Commonweal

There are lessons that the secular Left can learn from religion, for all its atrocities and absurdities; and the Left is not so flush with ideas that it can afford to look such a gift horse in the mouth. But will either side listen to the other at present? Will Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins read this and experience an epiphany that puts the road to Damascus in the shade?