CRITIC AT LARGE

Are Sacred Texts Sacred? the Challenge for Atheists

By CARLIN ROMANO

In a Nation essay this year about the wave of successful books vaunting atheism, critic Daniel Lazare wrote the following:

For a long time, religion had been doing quite nicely as a kind of minor entertainment. Christmas and Easter were quite unthinkable without it, not to mention Hanukkah and Passover....

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