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To Speak Plainly And Truthfully About The State Of Our World - To Say, For Instance, That The Bible And The Koran Both Contain Mountains Of Life-destroying Gibberish - Is Antithetical To Tolerance As Moderates Currently Conceive It. But We Can No Longer Afford The Luxury Of Such Political Correctness. We Must Finally Recognize The Price We Are Paying To Maintain The Iconography Of Our Ignorance.

If We Cannot Find Our Way To A Time When Most Of Us Are Willing To Admit That, At The Very Least, We Are Not Sure Whether Or Not God Wrote Some Of Our Books, Then We Need Only Count The Days To Armageddon-because God Has Given Us Far Many More Reasons To Kill One Another Than To Turn The Other Cheek.

Tell A Devout Christian That His Wife Is Cheating On Him, Or That Frozen Yogurt Can Make A Man Invisible, And He Is Likely To Require As Much Evidence As Anyone Else, And To Be Persuaded Only To The Extent That You Give It. Tell Him That The Book He Keeps By His Bed Was Written By An Invisible Deity Who Will Punish Him With Fire For Eternity If He Fails To Accept Its Every Incredible Claim About The Universe, And He Seems To Require No Evidence What So Ever.

Religious Moderation Is The Direct Result Of Taking Scripture Less And Less Seriously. So Why Not Take It Less Seriously Still? Why Not Admit The The Bible Is Merely A Collection Of Imperfect Books Written By Highly Fallible Human Beings.

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