5 - Verdict: Immature, Not Doomed

Summary

In an episode of the popular television show The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon finds himself in traffic court. Standing before an impatient judge, he says with his customary flourish: “Like a milking stool, my case rests on three legs.” Well, the case for human religious immaturity I’m making in this book also rests on three legs: the previous three chapters. We’ve already spent some time getting those three legs in place. In the first section of this chapter, I complete the account of how they are positioned in relation to each other, and show how this positioning enables them to hold the weight of my claim about our developmental immaturity in religious matters.