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Stephen Richard Prothero (/ˈproʊðəroʊ/; born November 13, 1960) is an American scholar of religion. He is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of eight books on religion in America, including the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy.

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Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.

Atheist, Convince, God, Opportunity, Righteousness, War

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 that all religions are beautiful and all are true. . . This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

Beautiful, Disrespectful, Europe, Lovely, Sentiment, True

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

Empty, Respect, Supposed, Tolerance, Understand, Virtue

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 Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

Bedroom, Folks, Jesus, Religious, Sex

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. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

Cooperate, Ignorance, Make, Our World, Religious

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