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Are Atheists Reconsidering Christianity? with Justin Brierley

Truth Over Tribe: Christian Takes on Culture, News & Politics

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The Importance of Faith in Critical Theory

I want to come back around to this idea of how those who are maybe fully embracing critical theory are very religious. They might not think about themselves that way, which does seem to be part of the reason why these new atheists are targeting it is they see the same religiosity pattern taking place there. But on the other hand, like you said, how they've left behind, because of jettisoned Christian unity, they'veleft behind some key components like forgiveness and grace and mercyThat helped to temper the justice. The question I always want to ask is, but why not? I mean, is Christianity just a useful lie? It's just a useful narrative that's produced some interesting

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