LAW AND RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS, CON'T

Thanks to Rick for calling the to-and-fro between Geoff Stone and Eugene Volokh to our attention.

Rick asked for our thoughts.  Here's mine:  Volokh is substantially correct.  Stone is quite wrong.

The most startling thing to me about Geoff Stone's comment is not that it's wrong but that it's uttered with such confidence.

One danger of teaching at an elite law school (like Chicago) for your whole career, I suppose, is that you may come to feel entitled to opine--ex cathedra, as it were--on matters with respect to which you are simply not up to speed.  One wonders whether Geoff Stone has gone to the mat with the relevant literature (Eberle, Greenawalt,  Wolterstorff, Audi ...).

Michael P.