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What good is religion anyway?

Religious doctrine might be cobblers, says prominent atheist Alain de Botton in his latest book, but it does have some good things to teach us.

By Karyn Scherer In Current Affairs

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3rd March, 2012
You can’t help wondering – if there really is a God, then how come Alain de Botton is so filthy rich? That’s an assumption on my part, of course, but he does seem to have made quite a name for himself as the brainy person’s Nigel Latta – a prematurely balding intellectual who’s done very nicely, thank you, helping middle-class Westerners put their 21st-century lives into some kind of perspective. In case you missed them, he has written several best-sellers, ranging from a popular novel about the French writer Marcel Proust to a meditation on the pleasures and sorrows of work. ...

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