Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

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.

It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels—and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.