the brights (NY times op-ed)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, James A. Landau wrote:

> I am a little surprised to find [C]hristian [F]undamentalists, generally
> stereotyped as narrow-minded, should be apologists for "non-believers".

But they're not apologizing for nonbelievers, right?  Aren't they rather
characterizing nonbelievers as constituting a religion as a tactic so they
can say that restricting religious exercise is in fact favoring one
religion over others?

Fred Shapiro


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