Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Andrew Sullivan and Jesus

Sam Harris has a post up critiquing the irrationality of Francis Collins (the next director of the National Institutes of Health) when it comes to religion. Harris writes that "Collins believes in a suite of canonical miracles, including the virgin birth and literal resurrection of Jesus Christ." This made my mind wander over to Andrew Sullivan, another believer with considerable intellectual heft. I know that he doesn't believe the Book of Genesis to be literal truth. Very few intellectuals do. However, a more interesting question is whether he believes in the Biblical tale of Jesus? In years of reading Sullivan, I can't remember him ever addressing this question. I would be very interested to hear his response.

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