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“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.”

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Ross Douthat is an American author born on November 28, 1979. He is known for his works on political, religious, and social issues, characterized by in-depth analysis and critical thinking. more

“Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.”

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“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.”

“Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.”

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“The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.”

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“The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.”

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“What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.”

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“I think it is fair, in a way, to describe certain forms of Marxism, for instance, as the secular equivalent of a religion. But, I think the same is true, to a certain extent, of secular liberalism as well.”

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“If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own.”

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“I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.”

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“The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liberalism, at least as we know it, couldn't really survive without.”

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