the so-called new atheists, like sam harris, richard dawkins, christopher hitchens, and if you want toaugh, bill maher. a much wider voice than their ancestors, o'hare and ingersol. in a country with more than 50 million religiously unaffiliated people, only a relative handful of the 535 members of congress, and no president or presidential candidate would say straightforwardly, i doubt there's a god who created the world and interferevenes in houma fairs. joining me now, the executive religion editor at the huffington post, and the west end pastor of the collegiate church in new york, and a professor of philosophically at boyd state university. professor, is the way that we talk about the unaffiliated so-called nones, even caught one how unexceptional they are? >> they're very ordinary folks. we have them as friends, neighbors and colleagues, perhaps not yet as representatives in congress as you mentioned earlier, but they're there, and they're measured by the expert polling that pugh undertakes, and they're growing, and it looks like these trends, which have been going on for about 2

my late comrade, christopher hitchens had had a very good line, which he said he wanted an end to one multi-culturalism. we take it as red that i cannot -- it's not just that i can't go and open a gay bar in riyadh. i can't open an anglican church in riyadh. we have a situation where the muslim world is increasingly closed, increasingly intoll remember atlanta intolerant far more than 50 years ago a. we invite people who have glt]9 up in that atmosphere and expect them to assimilate into the united states, canada, britain, and the u.s. and the rest are. across two or three generations is that there are real assimilation problems. >> mark, there are many americans born here raised here who are muslim. some have even converted to become muslims. some are serving in our u.s. military, protecting me as guy home every night in my comfortable house, they are out there, you know, walking some post. >> i accept that and i have for many years. there was a very respectable pharmacist at the princess pa trish's canadian light infantry base in alberta. he was perfectly assimilated western canadia

. >> tucker and i were talking about christopher hitchens was critical of her life before and after herrson on planet earth. >> why was he critical of her? >> for reasons too esoteric to relive. >> but she was one as a blessing to all of us who have known somebody who would say regardless of religion or denomination, that is a walking, living saint. why? because for years and years and years, before she was discovered by the media, she was doing what nobody else would do. that is working with the poor on the streets of calcutta and then around the world. i have mother teresa's nuns in the bronx for example who are working with homeless men. nobody talks about them. nobody -- they're not in the news. but she did that for years without ever being noticed and then all of a sudden she gave us the example to the world of brass tacks christianity. not esoteric, but basic down to earth, love others without seeking yourself. >> people who are dying, people who are literally dying, she made it her cause to give them comfort in their final moments. you said that it requires two miracles for someo