Thursday, April 22, 2010

Mystery fiction ...

... an interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... treating religion as a simple propositional affair seems to miss a great deal of what’s going on when people disagree about religion. Grasping what the world is like for those who see and feel it quite differently is surely a requirement for communicating, and here’s where the art of fiction can be helpful. It trains one’s mind that way in general.

Quite right. Because religion isn't even primarily a propositional affair, even if many believers seem to think it is.

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