The Importance of Intolerance

Most of the people in this world believe that the creator of the universe has written a book. The difference between spending eternity in heaven or eternity in hell turns on whether you believe the right things about a book, he says. Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one,. He adds: What we are seeing more and more - especially in the Muslim world - are the antisocial consequences of religious certainty.