â??What will it be like when Christianity joins the list of dead religions, and is taught in universities as part of the folklore syllabus?â? asks atheist writer Julian Barnes. What will it be like â??when blasphemy becomes not legal or illegal but simply impossible?â?
For the naturalist like Barnes, religion is a throwback to a past era of superstition, a â??supreme fictionâ? whose absence may be felt by even the most enlightened, just like one grieves upon â??closing a great novel.â?
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