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Shaw On Religion by George Bernard Shaw PDF

"I wish at the outset to clear myself of that confusion of religion with Veneration which enables most men to imagine themselves religious when they are only reverent. I am myself, and always have been, as religious a man as Voltaire; but as I have also been, like him, an extremely irreverent one, most Englishmen are unable to conceive me as religious." -Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw's irreverent observations about religion constitute a fresh entry into the current religious dialogue. Their value in the present discussion is as great in his manner of looking at the problems as in the answers that he gives. Three essays previously unpublished in book form are included in addition to two dozen excerpts from plays, prefaces and letters, arranged alphabetically.

They form a brilliant, saucy and entertaining display of wit and thought from a man of enormous faith who was one of the world's greatest iconoclasts. This book is essential for all those interested in the contemporary religious dialogue on the one hand, and for all lovers of Shaw on the other.

Warren Sylvester Smith is Professor of Theatre Arts at the Pennsylvania State University.

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