People Need Religion. It's A Vehicle For

After All, If You Believe That No One Was Ever Corrupted By A Book, You Also Have To Believe That No One Was Ever Improved By A Book (or A Play Or A Movie). You Have To Believe, In Other Words, That All Art Is Morally Trivial And That, Consequently, All Education Is Morally Irrelevant. No One, Not Even A University Professor, Really Believes That.

Young People, Especially, Are Looking For Religion So Desperately That They Are Inventing New Ones. They Should Not Have To Invent New Ones; The Old Religions Are Pretty Good.

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

Anyone Who Knows Anything About Journalism Knows That Reporters Are Rarely In A Position To Investigate Anything. They Lack The Authority To Subpoena Witnesses, To Cross-examine, To Scrutinize Official Records. They Are Lucky To Get Their Phone Calls Returned.

The Problem Is Efforts By Liberals To Establish A Wall Between Religion And Society, In The Guise Of Maintaining The Wall Between Church And State.