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July 28, 2011
“To what extent was Anders Breivik a Christian and to what extent did this shape his deeds?”
The answer is that he was not a Christian at all,unless we make Breivik the authority on what the term means. But we should go on to ask, “To what extent was Breivik the inheritor of an inward secularism dressed up in the outward trappings of a long-since-abandoned Christian faith, and to what extent did this shape his actions? If he had inherited not just the fossil of faith, but the living reality, would it have stopped his hand?” --Anders Breivik as a Pragmatic Agnostic | Philosophical Fragments
Posted by Vanderleun at July 28, 2011 10:41 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.