Eileen Flanagan: Internet bombast & negative stereotypes of God. I don’t have a clear analysis yet, just a sense that what my writing tries to do—help people get past their negative stereotypes of God and find a mature connection to the Divine that’s not based on coercion—is needed more than I realized, not to force a different kind of religion on the atheists who clearly aren’t interested, but to offer an alternative to all those people who are searching for something, but think that religion is just an evil institution that makes people feel guilty and starts wars.

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