[OmahaFields]

The key to the above quote is that Derbyshire says that he believes that Christianity

Thanks for the enlightening post. Question: Does he only reference Christianity or all religions / faiths?

[mjolnir]

Well, he talks about Chinese thought from time to time--- his wife is Chinese and he's spent a good amount of time in red China and in Hong Kong, and I recall that he considers himself to be a philo-semite, but (just) my impression is that he thinks that what he says applies to all religions, that the need for religion is ingrained in most though not all, and specific cultures give shape to that need... It's English culture that makes the British accept a civilized religion like Anglicanism, not the other way around, and the backwardness of Arab culture that caused it to readily accept radical Islam, not a matter of their respective religions that giving them their respective degrees of civilization.