The Confluence of Religion and Politics

Published: September 16, 2007, 10:26 am

Tags: books, politics, religion, society amp amp culture

The Wall Street Journal today (9/15/07) published an excerpt of Mark Lilla’s new book titled: ‘The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West’. Mark Lilla is a professor at Columbia University. Judging from the WSJ excerpt, Mr. Lilla has done a credible job of taking the reader from ancient time to the present while examining religious thought, theory and practice as it applies to political systems. Despite the implication in his book title that ‘God is dead’ (”Stillborn”), Lilla does not (at least in the excerpt) come across as a take-no-prisoners, iconoclastic atheist, ala Christopher Hitchens. He acknowledges that different people approach the facts of their existence, in relation to whatever God(s) they do or do not believe in, in different ways. After acknowledging that, however, he does make it clear which side he leans toward with the statement that: “Religion is something that happens to human beings, arising out of

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