Two books have just come out, one proclaiming that religion is back and better than ever, the other that religion is dead and its adherents just haven't noticed yet. Salon wonders: Who will win?

I assume we'll just settle this the old-fashioned way. Whoever sells more books was obviously correct, and that's the end of it.

Reading this article makes me want to get rid of both the religious and the irreligious. Who would be left? The apathetic, the agnostic, and let's say the Buddhists. That's my kind of party.