First Things RSS Feed - Jason Boffetti https://www.firstthings.com/author/jason-boffetti en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:14 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/jason-boffetti 60 How Richard Rorty Found Religion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/05/how-richard-rorty-found-religion https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/05/how-richard-rorty-found-religion Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 -0400 Richard Rorty's Aversion to traditional religion and religious belief is well known. In 2000, for example, he told a packed house of students and former colleagues at the University of Virginia that he was a “militant secularist” and that the Enlightenment was “right to suggest that religion is something that the human species would be better if it could outgrow”. It was Diderot, Rorty reminded them, who said that “the last king should be strangled with the entrails of the last priest” and “even though some of my best friends are priests, I feel some sympathy with all these critics of religious institutions”.

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