May 2011
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What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are
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Now the death of God combined with the perfection of the image has brought us to a whole new state of expectation. We are the image. We are the viewer and the viewed. There is no other distracting presence. And the image has all the Godly powers. It kills at will. Kills effortlessly. Kills beautifully.
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După atâtea călătorii prin labirintul cărților și al argumentelor, voi face o scurtă pauză muzicală, oferindu-vă două piese ale lui Josh Wilson (albumul See You, 2011): I refuse Sometimes I I just want to close my eyes And act like everyone’s alright When I know they’re not This world needs God But it’s easier to
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2. Reason: the rationality of beliefs The rationality of belief in God The New Atheism refuses to confront the inconvenient truth that every worldview – whether religious or secular – goes beyond what reason or science can prove. That’s just the way things are. The “ultimate questions” about value and meaning won’t go away. Both
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I’ve just read the last book of Alister McGrath, Why God Won’t Go Away: Is the New Atheism Running on Empty? (Thomas Nelson, 2010). I selected few thoughts, simple and in their logical framework, but I would like to begin with the last passage of the book: I’d just finished giving a lecture in London
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