{"id":31022,"date":"2012-02-24T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/martin_marty_reflects_on_atheism_religion_and_alain_de_botton\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:35:08","slug":"martin_marty_reflects_on_atheism_religion_and_alain_de_botton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31022","title":{"rendered":"Martin Marty Reflects on Atheism, Religion and Alain de Botton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular. . . . Thus every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and in the bias which that revelation gives to life.&#8221; Its vistas and mysteries propound &#8220;another world to live in,&#8221; and &#8220;another world to live in. . . is what we mean by having a religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>De Botton&#8217;s work is a laudable critique of what goes wrong in the old religions, which he seems to envy and about which he is nostalgic. &#8220;The religions&#8221; could take lessons from some of what he proposes. But it does not transcend the merely secular world, and does not appear to offer &#8220;another world to live in.&#8221; We&#8217;ll watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.uchicago.edu\/martycenter\/publications\/sightings\/archive_2012\/0220.shtml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular. . . . Thus every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31022\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,425,92,155,117,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-books","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}