Law Humor

“The desire to return to somewhere completely new but familiar…”

By Pseudoanonymous

Two quotes from this short article:

But where Bloch differed from other Marxists was in his insistence that it was not possible to simply dismiss religion as “the sigh of the oppressed creature in a hostile world” without recognising that the sigh contained the pre-illumination of a different and better world.

and

The resurrection of God presents a challenge to those such as Dawkins and Hitchens because they continue to perceive religion as an opiate which is handed out by states and their tame priests and mullahs in order to keep people quiet, rather than as a home-grown product consumed by people in order to dull the pain not only of global economic disadvantage but also of a deep, yet unidentifiable sense of loss.

Bloch’s Atheism in Christianity has been waiting its turn on my shelf for some time now. I think it just got bumped up in line.

(via CAUTE)

Full post as published by Arkansawyer on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).