religion spread among the many whose very humanity is at risk for their current lack of it. To be sure, there is one form of religion that is clearly anathema to him. He ascribes this repugnant form to what he calls “the conservative-evangelical-fundamentalist coalition” but which two millennia of history entitle us to describe as mainstream Christianity. This is the view that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity incarnate, that personal discipleship to him is the only path of eternal