Stephen Prothero God Is Not One

On Tuesday night's (March 29) episode of The Colbert Report, special guest Stephen Prothero joined the host for a wide-ranging discussion of the world...

The truth is, religions are both different and alike, depending on where one looks. And we need to look at the whole picture, because when we lean too far in either direction we lose our balance.

Religions are not the same. One claims a man can become God; another claims the distance between human and God is unbridgeable. One claims that God is...

I caught up with Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World -- And Why Their Differences Matter, to chat with him about religious zealotry, atheists, and Islamic pride.

In Stephen Prothero's new book, what seems like an intense conflict is ultimately just a marketing gimmick.

All religions may well be ultimately the same, Prothero's book notwithstanding -- systems of practices and beliefs that share many of the same attributes and values, including, perhaps ironically, that of not being literally true.

There are a lot of good things to say about Stephen Prothero's God Is Not One, but he gets disgracefully sloppy in his chapter on Judaism.