Religion for Atheists aims to ‘build bridges’ between the religious and secular worlds that de Botton feels have been polarised by what he calls, more than once and with more than a little air of disparagement, ‘the noise emanating from north Oxford’. Nevertheless, this is his latest project. In all of de Botton’s work, there is this seeking impulse that mirrors that of religion his central question is ‘How should we live?’ And yet, says de Botton, it ‘felt unnatural to seek wisdom in religion, because I’m an atheist.’ ‘I’ve been looking for wisdom,’ says Alain de Botton to a packed Barclays Pavilion – Hay-on-Wye’s equivalent of Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage.
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