co-incidentally just stumbled across this review of Harris's "End of Faith" in the NY Times - an aetheist who argues that all religion is nuts and as a society we have a real problem in shying away from criticising religions directly - but here he is bashing the moderates !
Harris reserves particular ire for religious moderates, those who ‘’have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths’’ and who ‘’imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us has learned to respect the unjustified beliefs of others.’’ Religious moderates, he argues, are the ones who thwart all efforts to criticize religious literalism. By preaching tolerance, they become intolerant of any rational discussion of religion and ‘’betray faith and reason equally.’’
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