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Commentary

Building temples

Agnostics anonymous

Last year, A.C. Grayling gave the world a non-religious Bible. This year, Alain de Botton is saying that: ‘it’s time atheists had their own versions of the great churches and cathedrals’.

De Botton’s argument is not that atheists need personal religious faith, but that the practical and public side of religion could provide a beneficial influence for the secular world. Society should have temples, rituals and pieties modelled on religious forms but without specifically …

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