Donald Ardell

A classic work that is far more apt today than it was many decades ago. An update could reframe the old problems now metastasized into Christian nationalism, spur reflection on critically needed antidotes and rescue the US from the religious fanatics who signaled their contempt for our democracy on January 6 with an insurrection founded on a big lie about a stolen election. I'd like to see an update from Salman Rushdie. The first paragraph could be taken from his piece in the Washington Post in 2002 entitled, "Slaughter in the Name of God:" "In our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?” ​