Catherine, the Washington Post is stealing your headlines!!

But be that as it may, this article about Sam Harris is a very good read. It opens:

There are really just two possibilities for Sam Harris. Either he is right and millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews are wrong. Or Sam Harris is wrong and he is so going to hell.

I couldn't help chuckling over this; it sounded so like one of the reasons C. S. Lewis gave for his conversion to Christianity. Not the hell part, but the part about realizing that in his atheism he was standing all but alone against the tides of history and cultural tradition, and that it was more likely that he was wrong than that millions, including so many great thinkers and writers whom he admired, were wrong. Maybe there's hope for Mr. Harris yet?