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Suspicion and Faith - The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism (Paperback, New Ed)
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Suspicion and Faith - The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism (Paperback, New Ed)
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Marx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern
atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic
and specifically Christian belief is expressed by Paul Ricoeur when
he calls them the "masters of suspicion." While skepticism directs
its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion
asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the
motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play,
what work does it do for the individuals and communities that adopt
it. What suspicion suspects is that the survival value of religious
beliefs depends on satisfying desires and interests that the
believing soul and the believing community are not eager to
acknowledge because they violate the values they profess, as when,
for example, talk about justice is a mask for deep-seated
resentment and the desire for revenge. For this reason, the
hermeneutics of suspicion is a theory, or group of theories, of
self-deception: ideology critique in Marx, genealogy in Nietzsche,
and psychoanalysis in Freud. Suspicion and Faith argues that the
appropriate religious response ("the religious uses of modern
atheism") to these critiques is not to try to refute or deflect
them, but rather to acknowledge their force in a process of
self-examination.
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