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Brendan O'Neill - Why We Must Dissent

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The Relationship Between Christianity and the Enlightenment

I was brought up as a Roman Catholic. I went to Catholic schools from the ages of four to eighteen. And we know that there is a close link between Christianity and the Enlightenment. There has to be a way in which society, precisely through exercising its freedom to think,. can arrive at something that we can generally agree to be true. The left are really the ones who are going to actually solve this problem if it's solvable. In a romantic way, I still consider myself a leftist, but even as I recognise that it has no meaning anymore.

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