Friday, November 07, 2014

Getting on with life …

… Bryan Appleyard — Religion Rising, Atheism Sinking. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Explicitly religious artists are, therefore, the true dissidents in a culture of repudiation. “It is quite odd, really,” says Roger Wagner, “when one thinks that a lot of what one actually enjoys in art is celebra­ting or affirmative, not simply under­mining, subverting or questioning.”
John Henry Newman said that faith meant "being capable of bearing doubt."

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