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What Is the Importance of Poetical and Metaphorically Understanding Religion?
Barry Weinstein says religion is metaphorically true but literally false. He argues that if you want your nice comfortable bourgeois morality then you do need god. If we jettison our sort of Christianity then we're gonna end up with something a lot more like the marquee desod than Saint Paul, he writes. The argument doesn't seem to be working very well because there's not enough firm ground on which to establish an ideal for God and his people according to Weinstein.
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