Top Highlights

• liberation from historical myths such as the biblical story of human sin
• belief in progress ‘guaranteed’ by the development of science.
• we are in a competition of beliefs,
• In China the governing ideology has become a crass form of utilitarianism, enshrining majority interests even at the expense of justice or human liberty.
• in the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists, and indeed in the eyes of not a few in the West, liberalism has come to stand for ‘non-belief’ – for indifference and permissiveness,