Compassion Is Not Feeling Sorry For Others.

Even Before 9/11 I Was Gripped By A Sense Of Dread: Our Lack Of Criticism About What We Were Doing In The Middle East - The Slagging Off Of A Whole Religious Tradition.

My Greatest Solace Is My Study. If I Am Deprived Of My Study, I Can Become Lost, Unhappy And Unhinged.

If We Could View Muhammad As We Do Any Other Important Historical Figure We Would Surely Consider Him To Be One Of The Greatest Geniuses The World Has Known.

The Trouble With A Lot Of Modern Theology And A Lot Of Modern Thinking About God, Is That We Think Of God A Sort Of Being Like Ourselves, But Bigger And Better With Likes And Dislikes Similar To Our Own.

Every Fundamentalist Movement I've Studied In Judaism, Christianity And Islam Is Convinced At Some Gut, Visceral Level That Secular Liberal Society Wants To Wipe Out Religion.