Eminent Northwestern University theologian and religious scholar Robert A. Orsi used that uniquely visceral word — passionately and with laser precision — 49 times in his 5,600-word article (“The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust”) in the spring/summer issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
It is fair to describe the long essay as a fierce, but not raging, indictment of Catholicism in particular, and supernatural religion in general.
That he is an important religion scholar of long standing in the United States, his opinion in my view matters more than others’ in the rarified world of religious criticism by believers ...
It is fair to describe the long essay as a fierce, but not raging, indictment of Catholicism in particular, and supernatural religion in general.
That he is an important religion scholar of long standing in the United States, his opinion in my view matters more than others’ in the rarified world of religious criticism by believers ...
[T]he long perspective of human history, religion has done more harm than good and that the good it does is inextricable from the harm. Please don’t think that what I have said so far and will go on to say are the sentiments of a cranky hater of religion of the sort that characterizes the inevitably short-lived but much-touted public performances of atheism in the United States. If you know my work, you know this is not me.
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