I Am Saying That There Is No

That's What They Do In Europe. You Go Down To The City Hall And You Become Legally Connected. You Have A Civil Union There. Then, If You're Religious, You Go Down To The Church, And The Church Blesses The Union. That Gets The Problem Solved.

There Is No Doubt That Religion Had Already Waned Under The Onslaught Of The Enlightenment, But It Was Freud Who Provided The Radically New Understanding Of Human Nature That Made Any Religious Explanation Of The Whats And Whys Of Our Personhood Seem Naive.

Whenever There Is A Catastrophe, Some Religious People Inevitably Ask, 'why Didn't God Do Something? Where Was God When All Those People Died?'

I Don't Know What To Make Of The Muslim Mystics, Especially Those Who Have Come To Be Known As The Sufis. What Do They Experience In Their Mystic Experiences? Could They Have Encountered The Same God We Do In Our Christian Mysticism?

We Don't Have To Give Up Trying To Convert Each Other. What We Have To Do Is Show Respect To One Another. And To Speak To Each Other With A Sense That Even If People Don't Convert, They Are God's People, God Loves Them, And We Do Not Make The Judgment Of Who Is Going To Heaven And Who Is Going To Hell. I Think That What We All Have To Do Is Leave Judgment Up To God. The Muslim Community Is Very Evangelistic, However What Muslims Will Not Do Is Condemn Jews And Christians To Hell If In Fact They Do Not Accept Islam.