{"id":26,"date":"2006-11-01T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/from-andrew-part-one.html"},"modified":"2006-11-01T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T07:50:00","slug":"from-andrew-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2006\/11\/from-andrew-part-one.html","title":{"rendered":"From Andrew (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan responded to my first letter<\/a> in his blog yesterday. Here is how he begins:<\/p>\n

“Thanks for taking the time to read the whole book. You’re not the first one to say it has the wrong title. Maybe I should have played off Sam Harris’ book and called it “The Beginning of Faith.” But when I tried to write about politics in these times, I simply found it impossible not to write about religion. Our foreign policy is shaped by a response to religious Islamic extremism; and our domestic politics, as you so ably demonstrate, has become about the use and abuse of religion for partisan poitical purposes.<\/p>\n

I was struck in your book by many things that really are not about politics. Your account of your adolescence is honest, and very funny. Hormones are indeed a laugh riot, and I sometimes wonder whether God gave them to us to ensure that we remember to laugh at ourselves from time to time. But I was particularly struck by what you yourself describe as the moment of your epiphany: your brain tumor, your near-death experience when driving a car and blacking out. You may well have died if your wife had not seized the steering wheel.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest of his post can be found at “The Daily Dish”<\/a> or by just clicking here<\/a>. I’ll respond this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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