--- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Looking at this renowned author, would suggest >we-goanetters tend to look at issues, at best in a >superficial way and at worst by demagoging the >facts. >
On reading the answers given by Dinesh D'Souza to two very reasonable and sober questions posed by TDR, my impression of him is worse than what it was before. He seems to be no better than the "we-goanetters" referred to above. No serious and thoughtful intellectual who genuinely has profound insights about religion, would have wasted the questioner's time with tired old banalities about the inquisition, crusades, crimes of atheists, Dawkins, Hitchens, Sam Harris and other bugaboos, in response to: "What do you believe the proper role of religion in a liberal arts education ought to be?" and "Whom are you reading these days?" D'Souza sounds to me more like a raving radio talk show host hacking a handful of trite ideological talking points and dropping names left and right to elicit emotional approval from his co-ideologues and co-religionists. Cheers, Santosh --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TDR: What do you believe the proper role of religion > in a liberal arts education ought to be? > > D'Souza: I think this assumption in society that > somehow religion should be left out of democratic > debate is a ludicrous one. It's based on a wrong > view of history that somehow sees religion as > inherently dangerous. Now, the reason for this myth > is that we've been subjected, in the last hundred > years or so, to a form of atheist propaganda, mainly > the idea that history shows that religion has been a > toxic and dangerous force in Western if not world > history......................................... > ............................................... > TDR: Whom are you reading these days? > > D'Souza: ............................I see the New >Atheists, people like > Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam > Harris as Lilliputian front men for the Great > Atheists of a hundred years ago. I'm thinking of > figures such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, > to some degree Marx, Bertrand Russell, and even > Jean-Paul Sartre. Ultimately, I think as Christians > there's a need to confront those atheists and the > arguments that they make. >
