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Where We Have Reasons For What We Believe, We Have No Need Of Faith; Where We Have No Reasons, We Have Lost Both Our Connection To The World And To One Another.

The Problem That Religious Moderation Poses For All Of Us Is That It Does Not Permit Anything Very Critical To Be Said About Religious Literalism.

Despite A Full Century Of Scientific Insights Attesting To The Antiquity Of The Earth, More Than Half Of Our Neighbors Believe That The Entire Cosmos Was Created Six Thousand Years Ago. This Is, Incidentally, About A Thousand Years After The Sumerians Invented Glue.

Science Does Not Limit Itself Merely To What Is Currently Verifiable. But It Is Interested In Questions That Are Potentially Verifiable (or, Rather, Falsifiable).

The Same Failure Of Liberalism Is Evident In Western Europe, Where The Dogma Of Multiculturalism Has Left A Secular Europe Very Slow To Address The Looming Problem Of Religious Extremism Among Its Immigrants. The People Who Speak Most Sensibly About The Threat That Islam Poses To Europe Are Actually Fascists. To Say That This Does Not Bode Well For Liberalism Is An Understatement: It Does Not Bode Well For The Future Of Civilization.