david berlinski you are not religious as i understand it. why you argue for the influence of christianity or the judeo-christian influence in society? >> i presume you are not asking that in the hopes of a personal declaration in. i argue for a great many items in my answers are variable but this question strikes me as more a volvemen than most fornal pricing if the issue is tremendously specific and if we are honest about the times of which we live live, quite right what matthew arnold suggested to me under the power of a variety of forces and the results in a certain way has been the catastrophic and liberating. i should not say a secular do has a remarkable degree of authority to discuss these events i have the way of life under the "maxim" to have a good time all the time but on the other hand,, it does not hurt to hear these words from someone such as myself because at least you're hearing fees words from nobody in their favor i count myself as the objective observer of the circumstances so perhaps it is the main reasonable answer i can