Reader Response
August, 2004
To each his ownWendell Berry nicely explains the dangers of extremism on both the left and the right ("The Perils of Foolish Use," May). But it bothers me when he writes that individualists behave "as if there were no God." The millions of people who don't believe in gods aren't living their life as if anything goes. The recognition that this life and this world are not just for us individually but for everyone does not require the threat of an afterlife genocide imposed by s...
