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Who would offer this account of religion? Who indeed?
There are plenty of traditionalists who see the inherent conservatism at the heart of the church as crucial to maintaining a religious society. But I do not believe that is true. A vibrant civil religion need not preach fire and brimstone nor seek to exclude and harm the vulnerable. A shared set of values needn't come with the mandate that we all adhere to every letter of the New Testament. We can spend hours relitigating all the harms the church has wrought, and lamenting the deeply entrenched fissures introduced across the world by religious extremism. But we must remember that atheism is as doctrinaire an idea as any traditional faith. And that an atomising society – where self-interest reigns – is as unpleasant as it is dangerous.
How about this headline from the Sunday Independent?
You know where you are with a nuke, but AI threat is a worrying mystery
Really?
From the Business Post editorial today on Dublin Airport:
The sale of 260 acres by the McEvaddys to Dublin Airport is a blow, but an independent third terminal might lower prices and generally inspire DAA
That 'might' is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
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