I am really overwhelmed to see so many people, but because my main hope is to engage with you and spend at least half an hour on q a i am going to speak briefly and what i am going to do is introduce the book in a general way and focus on just one section about demands on the burke that in europe. Quince not very long ago americans and europeans pride themselves on religious toleration and understanding. And animosity and violence including such bloody episodes as the wars of religion, including as well be quieter violence of colonial religious domination by europeans in many parts of the world and added to that, domestic antisemitism and anti catholicism and culminating in the horrors of nazism which implicated not only germany but many other nations as well. Europe and the u. S. Until recently liked to think these dark times were in the past and religious violence was somewhere else, in societies more allegedly primitive, less characterized by heritage of christian values. Today we h