Evans: we had best look at religion as "a kind of art, which only a child could mistake for reality and which only a child would reject for being false." Rushdie: "religion today is big public business, using efficient political organization and cutting-edge information technology to advance its ends. Religions play bare-knuckle rough all the time, while demanding kid-glove treatment in return." But these are compatible ideas. Evans is describing the respectful attitude we wish we could afford, and Rushdie is not rejecting the model but saying it's too soon -- that Religion-with-a-capital-arr still treats this as a war, not a conversation, so we have to stay loud. I think it's difficult but possible to both resist and appreciate supernatural thinking.