The only thing better than exposing famous atheists as believers as I did with Sartre and Camus is enlisting the help of atheists in unpopular ecclesial causes. I sense the tide has turned, especially for Neo-Cons, on John Paul II. Their attempts to baptize capitalism and every American war with the aid of JP2 have fallen short. A surprising number of them now busies themselves taking the same sorts petty pot shots at Wojtyla they once hated from liberal Catholics (I won’t stoop to linking their attacks).
I would argue being in the crosshairs of both sides of the theological spectrum is a good place to be. But don’t let me make the argument. I’ll let Julia Kristeva, an atheist, feminist, and psychoanalyst make it for me. (She also appeared at the 2011 World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi. You can read her call for peace…
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