Quote for the Day: The tiny, thwarted blastema of a thought

From David Bentley Hart, my hero:

Simply said, we have reached a moment in Western history when, despite all appearances, no meaningful public debate over belief and unbelief is possible. Not only do convinced secularists no longer understand what the issue is; they are incapable of even suspecting that they do not understand, or of caring whether they do. The logical and imaginative grammars of belief, which still informed the thinking of earlier generations of atheists and skeptics, are no longer there. In their place, there is now—where questions of the divine, the supernatural, or the religious are concerned—only a kind of habitual intellectual listlessness.

You may read the article in context here: http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/05/gods-and-gopniks

And, come to think of it, if you have the free time to read my humble journal, you have the time to read FIRST THINGS, which is somewhat higher than I on the Great Scale of Eternal Being.

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Originally published at John C. Wright's Journal. Please leave any comments there.