"One thing I'll say about what I say about religion. Again, I am not a crusading Richard Dawkins–style atheist. I don't know. Maybe God exists. I don't know, so I'm not saying, 'You people who believe in God, you're idiots.' I am entirely open to the various shades and flavors and degrees of hunches and religious belief and all that. What I really focus on, and why I focus on it, and why I get down to the specifics of let’s look at what most American Protestant Christians believe, is the extremism of these beliefs. Yeah, do you believe in God? Fine. Do you go to church? Great. Do you believe that Jesus was resurrected? OK, whatever. I don't know. I don't, but OK. When we got to faith healing and speaking in tongues and these specifics, which I grant it’s impolite of me to say, 'No, this is really nutty,' I'm sorry. It's important to me to not allow 'but it's my faith' to be the cloak that protects every belief that is a matter of faith from criticism, ridicule, doubt."
At Slate, Isaac Chotiner interviews Kurt Andersen about Andersen's new book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 500-Year History.
And The Atlantic provides an excerpt.
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