I admire Rushdie, and his late great friend Christopher Hitchens, who sheltered Rushdie after the fatwa. Both are/were atheists. But I'm hopeful that in his final days Hitchens realized what many of us do, and that Rushdie will come to that realization as well: that faith and science are not incompatible. To have one you don't have to reject the other. ;-)
I admire Rushdie, and his late great friend Christopher Hitchens, who sheltered Rushdie after the fatwa. Both are/were atheists. But I'm hopeful that in his final days Hitchens realized what many of us do, and that Rushdie will come to that realization as well: that faith and science are not incompatible. To have one you don't have to reject the other. ;-)
But thank God or somebody we in the West have the right to choose, if we believe or who we follow, which is not available in many Arab Nations but not all. Egypt being one very commendable exception. Turkey or should I say Erdoğan in particular is working towards totalitarianism and at best ignoring Christianity if not erasing it.
I admire Rushdie, and his late great friend Christopher Hitchens, who sheltered Rushdie after the fatwa. Both are/were atheists. But I'm hopeful that in his final days Hitchens realized what many of us do, and that Rushdie will come to that realization as well: that faith and science are not incompatible. To have one you don't have to reject the other. ;-)
But thank God or somebody we in the West have the right to choose, if we believe or who we follow, which is not available in many Arab Nations but not all. Egypt being one very commendable exception. Turkey or should I say Erdoğan in particular is working towards totalitarianism and at best ignoring Christianity if not erasing it.