"Nothing
keeps me religious more than the left, not even religion itself.
I am not
even particularly 'spiritual.' My religiosity is overwhelmingly rational (the
title of my Bible commentary is 'The Rational Bible'). I believe in God because
creation rationally suggests a Creator.
The force
that has most propelled me to religion is the great (secular) religion of the
last hundred years: the left. If most people of the left (the left, not
liberalism) — people who have not only rejected but scorned God, Judaism,
Christianity and the Bible — were decent individuals, were committed to
intellectual honesty and had produced some great art and works of wisdom,
leftism would have constituted a serious challenge to my religious beliefs."
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