When Culture Loosens Up — David Bentley Hart
“At some point, when the culture loosens up enough (I.e. Portugal and Ireland) and the language around one loosens up enough that one's allowed to think this, one begins to dare to think other things. And one's alternative is between a kind of unbelief and a belief in this horrible picture, that it was the trauma of one's childhood memories that filled one's childhood with apprehensions and terror and fear and a rather sadistic notion of what love and justice is. Well, you'd have to be a bit of a moral simpleton not to see that “faithlessness is kinder”, that it's richer in love, that it scares away, that it takes away the terrors of the night that darkened your childhood.
And at that moment, I mean, I think you find that the sort of faith that disappears quickly is the sort of faith that deserves to disappear quickly, culturally and personally.”
~David Bentley Hart (From The Zeitcast w/ Jonathan Martin)
