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In a dialogue between Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo on “the future of religion” held in Paris, on December 16, 2002, the two philosophers remarked that humanity has entered “the age of interpretation,” where there are no more strong reasons either to be an atheist refusing religion or to be a theist refusing science. Faith has arrived at a point where it could accommodate these dualisms without recognizing any reason for conflict. Motivated by the notion of “the death of God,” the secularization of the sacred has signified the rebirth of religion in the third millennium. Secularization renders philosophical questions about the nature of God useless—because of the weakness of human reason, it is not clear what it actually means to affirm or deny God’s existence.1 Toward the end of their dialogue, Vattimo asked:
What can we do with people who apparently do not share civic responsibility either inside our society or outside? What happens when we arrive at a place which refuses us, like some parts of the Islamic world, what do you think we should preach to them?
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Satha-Anand, C. (2011). Bejeweled Dialogue: Illuminating Deadly Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century. In: Anceschi, L., Camilleri, J.A., Palapathwala, R., Wicking, A. (eds) Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117686_8
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