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As the West has became more secular and relativist  it has forgotten the power that religions can unleash.

"Atheism is nothing like as easy as it looks. It may be simple enough at the individual level, but for whole societies to achieve this condition has proved remarkably hard. In fact, modernity is littered with the rubble of failed surrogates for the Almighty, all the way from reason, art, science, culture and humanity to nature, the people, the state and Tom Cruise. No sooner has God been rejected than he is smuggled in the back door again, sometimes in heavy disguise."

Terry Eagleton | Read the full extract here.

The audio and video recording of the lecture are available here. 

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