Tom Holland recently invited me to attend a service of Evensong with him at London’s oldest church, St Bartholomew the Great. Holland, who co-hosts the phenomenally popular The Rest is History podcast, has been a regular congregant for a few years. He began attending while researching Dominion...
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"Tom Holland recently invited me to attend a service of Evensong with him at London’s oldest church, St Bartholomew the Great.
Holland, who co-hosts the phenomenally popular
The Rest is History podcast, has been a regular congregant for a few years. He began attending while researching
Dominion, his bestselling book which outlined the way the 1st-century Christian revolution has irrevocably shaped the 21st-century West’s moral imagination. It also recounts how Holland, a secular liberal westerner who had lost any vestige of faith by his teenage years, came to realise he was still essentially Christian in terms of his beliefs about human rights, equality and freedom."
Well that's the thing, you can't keep the dignity and grandeur of the outer symbols -- the churches and art and music -- to say nothing of the essentially Christian values around 'human rights, equality and freedom' while taking away the foundation they stand on.
In trying to replace religion with logic, the scientific atheism of Richard Dawkins and others leaves an emptiness in the heart that reason and logic cannot fill?
Besides which -- religion 'faith' does really work. It brings genuine peace of mind, often healing too and transformation.
Nature abhors a vacuum.You just get
Brave New World?
