| | I haven't read him and after this quote, I don't see a reason too. There is no "we" here, the guy sounds like a humanist to me and the only them "we" have is common is that we don't believe in a god. That said, I have more in common with "Rushie" then Rushdie.
Just a quick notion about Rush and the other fundamentalists like him. When they talk about the "secularists" as they like to say, they're talking about the socialists and enviromentalist and the bunch. I listen to him every once in a while and a few years back I remember a caller telling him about objectivists. He knew about Atlas Shrugged and said he liked the book but not about objectivism in general. He said if what the caller said was true then objectivists should spend their time trying to get other athiests like them cause he could see himself working with people like that.
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The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybartic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons.
