Chosen for content over aesthetic merit … vi Zoroastrian tiles, Parsi shrine, 1989-90, India. Photograph: © Trustees of the British Museum
After a few minutes inwards the exhibition that accompanies Neil MacGregor’s novel BBC Radio four serial on the ability of religion, my peel started to sizzle too my blood to boil. I rattling felt branded inside, marked out equally a reprobate, for the premise of the demonstrate is that belief inwards God(s) is such a universal human trait that if yous lack it, yous may non hold upwards human.
That is signalled past times a large wall text at the start, suggesting that the right refer for our species may non hold upwards adult man sapiens, only “homo religiosus”. As person who doesn’t believe inwards God too doesn’t immature lady her, I felt a chip left out. Is belief actually the all-pervasive strength this exhibition claims?
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