Havel Denounces "Atheist Civilisation"

Andrew Brown on October 13, 2010

Václav Havel made a perfectly extraordinary speech yesterday, condemning ours as "the first atheist civilisation", which "has lost its connection with the infinite and with eternity".

Havel is not often thought of as a defender of religion, and the Czech republic is by some measures the most completely dechristianised part of Europe...>read more