![]() ![]() We tell ourselves that religion and reason are incompatible, but in fact the opposite is the case. The basic cause of all this unreason is the erosion of the building blocks of western civilisation. ![]() There is widespread belief in ludicrous conspiracy theories, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack being an American plot. More and more people are signing up to weird and wacky cults, para-psychology, seances, paganism and witchcraft. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, writes Phillips, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. A new book on religion, values and an increasingly secular world is turning a growing number of heads around the world – incuding heavyweights such as former CIA Director Richard Woolsey, who describes A World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips as “a trenchant sequel to George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.” Comparing anyone to Orwell is pretty high praise, especially when it comes form someone like Woolsey. ![]()
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