Conservatism reborn in twisted sisterhood
The point of writing history is not… somehow to cleanse ourselves, as it were, of the taint of the past–the humanist/Reformation/Enlightenment project of exposing the past as past and cordoning it off behind the fence of anachronism. Rather, it is to allow ourselves still to be touched by the past. –Bruce Holsinger and Rachel Fulton [...]
a really excellent essay from William T. Cavanaugh. Excerpt: But what is implied in the conventional wisdom that religion is prone to violence is that Christianity, Islam, and other faiths are more inclined toward violence than ideologies and institutions that are identified as “secular.” It is this story that I will challenge here. I will [...]
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