[Periergeia]

Brother Guy Consolmagno represents the best of educated Catholicism. If he was the model of all religious people in the world, religion would no longer be a problem. OTOH, Brother Guy style religions would also be equivalent to free country club memberships for all, and thus completely irrelevant.

For the first time it appears to me that fanatic religious suicide bombers and fundamentalist Creationist are the only things that give religions any importance, whatsoever. It's not a good importance, of course, but at least it's something to get excited about. The lukewarm philosophical hand holding offered here, for sure isn't.