it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

Take the risk of thinking for yourself