The Earth Has Grown A Nervous System,

You Don't Get To Advertise All The Good That Your Religion Does Without First Scrupulously Subtracting All The Harm It Does And Considering Seriously The Question Of Whether Some Other Religion, Or No Religion At All, Does Better.

I Am A Philosopher, Not A Scientist, And We Philosophers Are Better At Questions Than Answers.

Religion Is Defined As Social Systems Whose Participants Avow A Supernatural Agent Or Agents Whose Approval Is To Be Sought.

The Theoretical Fruits Of Deliberate Oversimplification Through Idealization Are Not To Be Denied... Reality In All Its Messy Particularity Is Too Complicated To Theorize About, Taken Straight. The Issue Is, Rather (since Every Idealization Is A Strategic Choice), Which Idealizations Might Really Shed Some Light... Which Will Just Land Us... Diverting Fairy Tales.

I Don't Think There Is Any Religious Revival. I Think What We Are Hearing, The Furor, Is Merely The Hysterical Response Of The Churches The Handwriting On The Wall That They Are Seeing.