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(A)theologies, New Books, Politics/LawAugust 20, 2012

Simon Critchley, Atheist Religious Thinker on Utopia & the Fiction of Faith

By Beatrice Marovich

Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant.

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.@AndrewLSeidel: "This is why the conservative legal movement sought to capture and control the courts: because lifetime appointments in one of the three branches offer significantly more power when they’re faded into irrelevance in a democracy." https://t.co/H8Kh0Rxzmk

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"A Catholic theocracy seems to take stronger and stronger hold through the Court and other parts of government as white Christian nationalism grows," writes Mary E. Hunt: https://t.co/2oLLgjVhuo

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- 2 days ago

"The rhetoric around sex, marriage, & family isn’t only about the prosperity of the American nation-state," writes @miheekimkort. "It’s about the normalization of narratives grounded in coercion & oppression by delineating who’s deemed proper & acceptable."https://t.co/H0XIOk4O7B

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