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Is Politics Filling the Void of Religion?

“I think if we want people to genuinely own their mistakes, then you have to offer the possibility of redemption,” Helen Lewis says.
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The Atlantic writer Helen Lewis, now an atheist, was raised in the Catholic Church. She was once asked if her feminist convictions as an adult play a similar role to the Catholicism of her youth. The question was particularly interesting to her because “the decline of organized religion is one of the most important trends in postwar history,” she says in a new BBC radio documentary, The Church of Social Justice. I talked with Helen about the documentary and her accompanying Atlantic article.

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