Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that?

Look at life under communism, and you’ll see why religion will never die

From magazine issue: 31 May 2014

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Roger Scruton

Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that?
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