The abolition of the slave trade was one of Christianity’s greatest “glories” according to Welsh actor, with the right of the individual conscience coming from early Christianity, he claimed.
Today, conspiracy theories about non-Muslim minorities dominate the public sphere. At the root of these stories, Christians are depicted as collaborators with foreign powers to undermine the Turkish identity.
Western exceptionalism is one of the fiercest battlegrounds of contemporary history. And far from being a purely academic argument, it has immediate repercussions on today’s culture wars.
Only a few years ago, the aggressive “New Atheist” movement was on the march, with rhetorical brawlers like Christopher Hitchens and renowned biologists like Richard Dawkins leading the charge against religion and the last vestiges of Christian faith in the West. Religion, Hitchens famously stated, “poisons everything,” and could only be considered, at best, humanity’s “first and […]
Actor Brad Pitt has said that he “clings to religion” in an interview with GQ magazine. The star of the newly-released Ad Astra said that he had “gone through everything” in searching for connection. “Like, I cling to religion,” he said. “I grew up with Christianity. Always questioned it, but it worked at times,” he told GQ. […]