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If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything | The New Yorker

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Martin Hägglund argues that rigorous secularism leads to socialism.

Save this story Save this story At a recent conference on belief and unbelief hosted by the journal Salmagundi , the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson confessed to knowing some good people who are atheists, but lamented that she has yet to hear “the good Atheist position articulated.” She explained, “I cannot engage with an atheism that does not express itself.” She who hath ears to hear, let her hear. One of the most beautifully succinct expressions of secular faith in our bounded life on earth was provided not long after Christ supposedly conquered death, by Pliny the Elder, who calle

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