Alain Finkielkraut Quote

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in a position to endorse. Fanaticism is indefensible when it appeals to heaven, but beyond reproach when it is grounded in antiquity and cultural distinctiveness.


The Undoing of Thought (1988)


In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...

In a world which has lost its transcendental significance, cultural identity serves to sanction those barbarous traditions which God is no longer in...