Isn’t all religion anti-intellectual?
Quite some time ago, a NY Times columnist, Ross Douthat wrote a book called “Bad Religion”. He went on the show of militant atheist Bill Maher and I found their conversation really enlightening.
In particular, at one point Maher asks “Isn’t all religion anti-intellectual?” and Douthat gave what I thought was a really great answer.
My favourite part though was when Douthat talks a little bit about how our understanding of the human person radically alters our perception of abuses of religion.
I’d invite you to check out the video and see how Douthat calmly responds to Mayers questions with clear, logical responses.
A friend recently sent me this video of an talk between Ross Douthat and Bill Maher, where they discuss Ross’ book