It's far easier to believe in the historical accuracy of the Gospels than in the pick-and-choose, shallow self-affirmation that Thompson rings from them.

Once again we see some sort of exotic fetishism for the non-Western masquerading as a fashionable liberal "tolerance".  Do you think Thompson cares about the whole history of Christianity and Islam, or would that just kill his buzz?  His observations on the whole are pretty shallow and safe, but what can you really…