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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The newest meme

I predict the ideas in this article will be making the rounds for a while. The author's basic idea is that the religious life of most people is a form of what he calls 'apatheism', which is that they may believe in God, but are mostly apathetic about it. I actually think that his description is fairly accurate and the neologism is very clever, but of course I don't think this is a good state of affairs. What he seems to neglect, or perhaps have never met, is a non-violent passionate believer...