It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.