Comments on: If Tony Blair is an Octopus http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/ideas-beliefs/if-tony-blair-is-an-octopus/ Mixed Multitudes Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:10:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Superfobby http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/ideas-beliefs/if-tony-blair-is-an-octopus/#comment-87 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:01:41 +0000 http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/ideas-beliefs/if-tony-blair-is-an-octopus/#comment-87 This is nice work and hits Dawkins on most of the appropriate things, although maybe not as deeply on his rationalist epistemology as I'd like. Probably because Eagleton remains somewhat partial to that, as whatever type of leftover Marxist he is. Couldn't help but notice, though, that Eagleton's version of Christianity is still framed in that anti-legalistic way that calls up memories of Judaism as the Other to Christianity. I forgive him because it was all he could do to defend one religion from Dawkins at a time. This is nice work and hits Dawkins on most of the appropriate things, although maybe not as deeply on his rationalist epistemology as I’d like. Probably because Eagleton remains somewhat partial to that, as whatever type of leftover Marxist he is.

Couldn’t help but notice, though, that Eagleton’s version of Christianity is still framed in that anti-legalistic way that calls up memories of Judaism as the Other to Christianity. I forgive him because it was all he could do to defend one religion from Dawkins at a time.

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