Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.

Freedom is an unprovable but unavoidable presupposition, not an article of faith.

It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.