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With nearly a dozen clerics on board, A Living Conversation is hardly an exercise in atheism, debunking or even agnosticism. Rather it is a fascinating collection of approaches, from traditional to avant-garde, jostling around those magnificent, infuriating tales. As one panelist, author Charles Johnson, comments early on, "the problem is not a lack of meaning...it's too much meaning." Quite often the participants' insights can be delightful--for example, author Gordon suggests that the irrationality of Cain's murder of Abel epitomizes "the crisis of liberalism"--but such comments often whiz by without sufficient examination...
...with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry about God at all." --April...
...testified to God's grace in the lives of Germans who had turned to the church: an alcoholic who kicked his habit, a prostitute and drug addict who reformed her ways and was baptized six weeks later, a 60-year-old woman who had taught the official atheism of East Germany but has now converted to the Christian faith...
Zyuganov says the party "recognizes a mixed economy, has renounced atheism and is ready for serious political dialogue to persuade voters." That certainly does not sound like Marxist-Leninism. But there is more. The party's official program looks back longingly to Yuri Andropov, a former kgb chief and Soviet party head from 1982 to 1984, crediting him somehow with establishing "freedom of speech and freedom of political associations." As for Stalin's purges and Gulag and the corruption of the Brezhnev era, they were "mistakes" to be avoided in the future, Zyuganov says...
...then the atheism...