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This week he [Terry Eagleton] gave the annual lecture organised by Theos, a London-based think-tank which studies religion and society. Elaborating on one of his favourite recent themes, he poked at the new atheists from several angles, while also back-handedly acknowledging that they were onto something. Especially when observing societies different from their own, he began by asserting, secular humanists greatly underestimate the importance and resilience of faith.

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