Location
Muhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd Street (at 7th Ave.)
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
by Mark Lilla

This searching history of Western thinking about the relationship between religion and politics was inspired not by 9/11, but by Nazi Germany, where, says Lilla , politics and religion were horrifyingly intertwined. Lilla reaches back to the early modern era, when thinkers like Locke and Hume began to suggest that religion and politics should be separate enterprises.

Some theorists argued that government must be totally detached from religion. Others believed that rightly practiced religion could contribute to modern life.

Liberal theologians, Lilla says, credulously assumed human society was progressive and never dreamed that fanaticism could capture the imaginations of modern people—assumptions that were proven wrong by Hitler.

Join us even if you haven’t finished reading. The CFI/SHSNY Book Club is open to all ... and free!

Every CFI/SHSNY Book Club Meet is a Book Swap, too. Bring the books gathering dust on your shelves and take your pick of other readers’ castaways. The leftovers? Donated to the Muhlenberg.

Directions to the Muhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd Street (at 7th Ave.):

#1 train to 23rd St. & 7th Ave., F or V to 23rd & 6th, C or E to 23rd & 8th; #23 or #20 bus to 23rd & 7th. Parking garages at 170 and 101 West 23rd. The library has an elevator to the 3rd floor Community Room.

PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS EVENT IS NOT AN NYC SKEPTICS EVENT