Compatibilism Amounts To Nothing More

What We Do In Every Other Area Of Our Lives (other Than Religion), Is, Rather Than Respect Somebody's Beliefs, We Evaluate Their Reasons.

It Is Also True That The Less Competent A Person Is In A Given Domain, The More He Will Tend To Overestimate His Abilities. This Often Produces An Ugly Marriage Of Confidence And Ignorance That Is Very Difficult To Correct For.

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.

It Is Time That We Admitted That Faith Is Nothing More Than The License Religious People Give One Another To Keep Believing When Reasons Fail.

Values Reduce To Facts About The Well-being Of Conscious Creatures.