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Religion Dispatches
Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is…
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Religion Dispatches
Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he…
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Religion Dispatches
Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant.
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Religion Dispatches
Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the…
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Religion Dispatches
By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with Salon, AlterNet, The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and plenty of religious leaders. Whether Harris is a brawler…
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Religion Dispatches
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…
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Religion Dispatches
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…
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Religion Dispatches
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!”…
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Religion Dispatches
Faitheist author Chris Stedman on why the genre of embattled atheist polemic may have run its course.
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Religion Dispatches
“Atheism+” formed to address social justice problems in the atheist community, but it may have to reckon with religion.
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