The day before Mayweather fought Pacquiao, New Atheist Sam Harris released an email sparring match he’d had with famed linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky. In his bestselling book The End…
Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on the notion that “religion is inherently violent” or that religion and war go together like a horse and carriage…
In recent posts about religious “nones,” or individuals without a religious affiliation, Mark Silk and Chris Stedman at the Religion News Service address the potential relationship between the…
When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!”…
I have been following, with some glee, the verbal spankings that Bill Maher and other “New Atheists” have been getting from the likes of Ben Affleck and Reza Aslan. For years I have been not so much…
Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace by Frank Schaeffer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 Take the moral law and make a nave of it…
