New Book Group
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Wednesdays, August 4 & 11
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
At Nanette’s house:
Chicago, 60622
312-399-2081
(call for directions)
In preparing for the upcoming book group which will meet at my house on the next two Wednesday nights, here are a couple of articles I found interesting and helpful:
An interesting related article is in the Huffington Post: “Why Religion Needs Atheists” by my friend Samir Selmanovic (he founded Faith House Manhattan.)
And this piece by Adam Frank in the NPR blog: “The Hidden Dimensions of Science vs. Religion” which asks the great questions: Can we honor our experiences of life’s sacred character without holding jealously to creed and dogma? Can we understand how science too calls us to those experiences?
Thank-you for educating me with use of term ‘literalism’ where some do get totally embedded in ‘truth’ of events and, perhaps, provoke the Hitchens-of-the-world into total aggravation. Also enjoyed how you show that Hitchen’s first objection is about a particular type. For me he also misunderstands ‘religious faith’ in that faith is related to how the world began rather than an eternal journey of/to faith and practice, however imperfect, of faithfulness. Thanks for post.