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Book Review: Patrick Deneen on Damon Linker?s ?Religious Test?

By Alliance Alert

Patrick J. Deneen writing at The Washington Post / On Faith: "Linker concludes his book with a criticism of such 'new atheist' authors as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, differentiating himself inasmuch as he does not seek the wholesale elimination of religious belief, but rather to ensure that where it persists, that it be quarantined to largely private expressions . . . This view of liberal neutrality, then, disproportionately burdens not religious belief per se, but those religious beliefs that have a public or political dimension. In the American setting, this disproportionate burden falls particularly on evangelical Christian and Catholic believers."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).