Poor besieged Anna Quindlen. She received an indignant letter from a reader, you see, and his tone reminded her of the chill wind that is religious intolerance. “When did it first become gospel that only conservatives knew God?” Quindlen asks. As evidence of this widespread bigotry, Quindlen refers to the notorious Christian apologist Bill O’Reilly — which could leave her more literal-minded readers thinking that God must sometimes refer to himself as The Factor.