So I had some interesting dinner conversation this evening. :3 mmm dinner conversation.  Anyway, it ended up being a question about how a person can be open-minded/a cultural relativist and disagree with things at the same time.  For example, I might consider a particular sect of Christianity to be legit and on equal footing with any other sect of ( Read more... )

So, after some discussion about religion the other night, media_res told me I should read The Republic of Heaven.  So I did.

I got to about this line: "And one of the most deadly and oppressive consequences of the death of God is this sense of meaningless or alienation that so many of us have felt in the past century or so."  ( Read more... )