How Richard Rorty found religion.

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Richard Rorty's aversion to traditional religion and religious belief is well known. In 2000, for example, he told a packed house of students and former colleagues at the University of Virginia that he was a "militant secularist" and that the Enlightenment was "right to suggest that religion is something that the human species would be better if it could outgrow." It was Diderot, Rorty reminded them, who said that "the last king should be strangled with the entrails of the last priest" and "even though some of my best friends are priests, I feel some sympathy with all these ...

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