{"id":1240,"date":"2009-09-17T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2009-09-17T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:17:58","slug":"religion-for-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/09\/religion-for-radicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion for Radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Terry Eagleton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/gr\/greece-arts-330x390-terry-eagleton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"188\" \/>Today at The Immanent Frame, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2009\/09\/17\/religion-for-radicals-an-interview-with-terry-eagleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">I talk with literary critic Terry Eagleton<\/a> about his new book, <em>Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate<\/em>. Arguments about God and religion, he insists, are more than just tiffs about lofty ideas; they are deeply political and should be understood as such.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dawkins and I were recently asked to write articles for the front page of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, if you can believe it. I don\u2019t know what the rationale behind this is, or even if it will come off. I said that I would do so, provided that my last sentence would be, \u201cJesus Christ would never have been given a column in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.\u201d It is indicative of the strangeness and intensity of this debate that it crops up in the most peculiar places. It crops up at the very temples of Mammon. But, you see, I think that\u2019s because these people really do think it\u2019s just about a set of ideas, of propositions. That\u2019s a pretty comfortable debate. But the point I try to make when I enter on these forums is that it\u2019s not just that. It has a strong political subtext.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2009\/09\/17\/religion-for-radicals-an-interview-with-terry-eagleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a> at The Immanent Frame. Also, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=reclaiming_religion\" target=\"_blank\">my earlier review<\/a> of <em>Reason, Faith, and Revolution <\/em> for <em>The American Prospect<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Terry Eagleton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/gr\/greece-arts-330x390-terry-eagleton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"188\" \/>Today at The Immanent Frame, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2009\/09\/17\/religion-for-radicals-an-interview-with-terry-eagleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">I talk with literary critic Terry Eagleton<\/a> about his new book, <em>Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate<\/em>. Arguments about God and religion, he insists, are more than just tiffs about lofty ideas; they are deeply political and should be understood as such.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dawkins and I were recently asked to write articles for the front page of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, if you can believe it. I don\u2019t know what the rationale behind this is, or even if it will come off. I said that I would do so, provided that my last sentence would be, \u201cJesus Christ would never have been given a column in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.\u201d It is indicative of the strangeness and intensity of this debate that it crops up in the most peculiar places. It crops up at the very temples of Mammon. But, you see, I think that\u2019s because these people really do think it\u2019s just about a set of ideas, of propositions. That\u2019s a pretty comfortable debate. But the point I try to make when I enter on these forums is that it\u2019s not just that. It has a strong political subtext.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ssrc.org\/tif\/2009\/09\/17\/religion-for-radicals-an-interview-with-terry-eagleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a> at The Immanent Frame. Also, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=reclaiming_religion\" target=\"_blank\">my earlier review<\/a> of <em>Reason, Faith, and Revolution <\/em> for <em>The American Prospect<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,11,21,82,16,69],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-conversation","tag-existence-of-god","tag-office","tag-politics","tag-religion-science","tag-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}