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What I'm Asking You To Entertain Is That There Is Nothing We Need To Believe On Insufficient Evidence In Order To Have Deeply Ethical And Spiritual Lives.

Most Of Us Are Wiser Than We May Appear To Be. … On One Level, Wisdom Is Nothing More Profound Than An Ability To Follow One’s Own Advice.

Religious Moderation Is The Direct Result Of Taking Scripture Less And Less Seriously. So Why Not Take It Less Seriously Still? Why Not Admit The The Bible Is Merely A Collection Of Imperfect Books Written By Highly Fallible Human Beings.

The Same Failure Of Liberalism Is Evident In Western Europe, Where The Dogma Of Multiculturalism Has Left A Secular Europe Very Slow To Address The Looming Problem Of Religious Extremism Among Its Immigrants. The People Who Speak Most Sensibly About The Threat That Islam Poses To Europe Are Actually Fascists. To Say That This Does Not Bode Well For Liberalism Is An Understatement: It Does Not Bode Well For The Future Of Civilization.

Morality And Values Depend On The Existence Of Conscious Minds - And Specifically On The Fact That Such Minds Can Experience Various Forms Of Well-being And Suffering In This Universe.