Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even …

- Stephen Prothero

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. Wha…

- Stephen Prothero

At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble…

- Stephen Prothero

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

- Stephen Prothero

At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm tha…

- Stephen Prothero