Wingnut Ghetto

I’ve seen many different means and methods for organizing a bookstore. Why continue to shop at a bookstore that you believe is racist?

I’m amused that you are blaming the left for the labels applied to books. It wasn’t so long ago that similar labels were being applied to people by law, with the full support of the GOP.

And isn’t the right of the bookstore owner to use whatever categories they choose?

Klavan cracks me up...

Rush is an entertainer. His show is hilarious. As long as you don’t believe a word of it - his show is a laugh riot.

Thanks for a laugh. Next time please be more polite.

Klavan’s challenge was offered with insults and disrespect, proving his argument on the tone of discourse hollow.

I’ve listened to Rush with an open mind plenty of times, and the results are predictable. Limbaugh inevitably provides poorly reasoned arguments that are suitable as comedy, while offending the intelligence of anyone who would attempt to take him seriously.

Rush is no more than a popular entertainer. That he happens to promote hateful ideas is unfortunate - that he has an audience of millions that take his word as gospel is tragic. That Klavan considers him a good representative of Conservatism is just sad.

'Believe in God or Die'???

The latest American Religious Identification Survey shows that the number of those who believe in no religion at all has almost doubled in the last 18 years, rising from 8 percent to 15 percent since 1990.

Great news for Bill Maher. For the rest of us: worrying evidence of the slow decline of the best and freest culture the earth has ever known.

I think you overestimate the importance of religion to the best and freest culture the earth has ever known. Freedom is exactly what is on the rise here.

This idea—the idea of religion as a human evil—strikes me as very strange given the, you know, facts.

Really? So the fact that religious belief has repeatedly led to wars and intense human suffering doesn’t strike you as even a little evil?

None of this is proof of the existence of God, of course, but it is fairly substantial evidence that we need faith in order to thrive, that without it we sink into either murderous violence or suicidal ennui.

Faith may be important, but faith in God is foolishness. Faith in ourselves is what we need to thrive - not faith in some imaginary robed superbeing.

As for all the other, more peaceful faiths that uplift and sustain so many, they may sometimes promulgate ignorance and superstition in trying to speak of what can only in the end be experienced, but just as often, and sometimes simultaneously, they are the source and center-point of the best in our communities and in our hearts. Without them, we won’t be here for long.

I heartily disagree. We would all be better off without faiths that promulgate ignorance and superstition. God is dead - and we’re all better off without.