Here is Terry Eagleton, Cambridge-trained-Literary critic, Social commentator/critic, Marxist, with a Roman Catholic pedigree giving the University of Edinburgh’s esteemed Gifford Lectureship. He is upending the dynamic duo of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens; whom he endearingly calls “Ditchens.” As you watch the video (if you do), you’ll notice his witty, couched in erudite, style; how he throws little irreverent jabs at Ditchens along the way, while he is providing somewhat devestating critique of the duo’s erstwhile love affair with the now besmirched high rationalism of yesteryear — and the god therein. He says some things, of course, that I don’t like (some serious things); but overall I think his candor and stiff upper lip, in the face of it all, give way to a reorientation of things — such as atheism — that breathes a wiff of fresh air into the all too stagnant pond of gobbeldy-muck from whence Ditchens thinks we have arrived.

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HT: Scott Kirkland

You’ll notice that his first two interlocuters, during the Q & A at the end, cannot find their ways out of the very, old, binary that Eagleton has just finished dismantling from below. His first questioner cannot imagine how one could ever approach atheism except upon its same old same old fundamentalist categories of inquiry. He tries to press Eagleton on the very terms that Eagleton just kicked to the curb . . . funny. I don’t expect most to watch this; if you do, you’ll be provoked, one way or the other 😉 .

After-reflection

Of course Eagleton’s remarks are somewhat of a parody, since at the end of the day . . . you’re either for Christ or against Him!