Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is Christianity a Part of the Treasury of Mankind?
There's a paradox that often people who who don't particularly believe will sometimes be drawn to ideas or emotions, and then they might say, oh, that seems a bit too religious. And so i suppose what i'm arguing for is a kind of reverse colonization, am in som way that christianity colonized the pagan world, absorbing its best elements. So i'm arguing that non believers can do a little bit of this with religion, just as religion did it with them. These religions are far too interesting to be abandoned merely to those who believe in them.
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