Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Book of Common Prayer Is a Beautiful Example of Taking Religious Ideas Into Beautiful Language
In your writing, ou you also often pull out pieces of liturgy in words that are explicitly religious. And the book of common prayer, n in britain, is also a beautiful example of taking religious ideas and turn them into beautiful language. Do you feel that those have a meaning for secular people? I think a lot of what's attractive in religion is that it puts us in a wider perspective, both in time, er and in and in place. It's nice to be made to feel small against the backdrop of a vast universeiof something larger than yourself exactly.
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