What Are The Chances That We Will

It Is Safe To Say That Almost Every Person Living In New Orleans At The Moment Hurricane Katrina Struck Shared Your Belief In An Omnipotent, Omniscient, And Compassionate God. But What Was God Doing While Katrina Laid Waste To Their City? Surely He Heard The Prayers Of Those Elderly Men And Women Who Fled The Rising Waters For The Safety Of Their Attics, Only To Be Slowly Drowned There.

To Say That I Would Have Done Otherwise Had I Wanted To Is Simply To Say That I Would Have Lived In A Different Universe Had I Been In A Different Universe.

The Point Is That Most Of What We Currently Hold Sacred Is Not Sacred For Any Reason Other Than That It Was Thought Sacred Yesterday.

Although Many Things Can Be Said In Criticism Of Religious Faith, There Is No Discounting Its Power. Millions Among Us, Even Now, Are Quite Willing To Die For Our Unjustified Beliefs, And Millions More, It Seems, Are Willing To Kill For Them.

Muslims Must Learn That If They Make Belligerent And Fanatical Claims Upon The Tolerance Of Free Societies, They Will Meet The Limits Of That Tolerance.