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… The uses of religion: Comfort, joy and disagreement | The Economist. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The underlying problem is that scientists have cheapened meaning, [Scruton] claims. Our deepest emotions are not mere “adaptations”, “hard wired” in the human cortex; if you reduce people to balls of cells, you wipe away intention, responsibility, freedom and emotion. Instead, the real meaning of existence is located in people’s relationships with each other, the earth and God. The face is his paradigm of meaning, relationship and identity. It is through contemplating the face, the outward form and image of what is inside, that humans see each other as subjects, rather than objects, he says.