The Myth of Moderation in Religion

There is no need to have all of our beliefs about the universe cohere. A person could be a God-furing Christian on Sunday and a working scientist come Monday morning without ever having to account for the partition that seems to have erected itself in his head while he slept. It should go without saying that these rival belief systems are all equally uncontaminated by evidence. But we will find that it requires no faith in untestable propositions. Jesus was born of a virgin, the Quran is the word of God for us to do this. And so here I begin to touch on a theme which is brought out more later in the book, but also most fully in my recent book waking