Before he died on February 14, Ronald Dworkin sent to The New York Review
a text of his new book, Religion Without God, to be published by Harvard
University Press later this year. We publish here an excerpt from the first
chapter. —The Editors
The familiar stark divide between people of religion and without religion is too crude. Many millions of people who count themselves atheists have convictions and experiences very like and just as profound as those that believers count as religious. They say that though they do not believe in a
“personal” god, they nevertheless believe in a “force” in the universe“greater than we are.” They feel an inescapable responsibility to live their lives well, with due respect for the lives of others; they take pride in a life they think well lived and suffer sometimes inconsolable regret at a life
they think, in retrospect, wasted.
Religion Without God by Ronald Dworkin | The New York Review of Books
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