Posts Tagged: Sam Harris
The Judeo-Christian Atheist
“Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feelings of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibalistic country” -- Samuel Butler (19th...
Sam Harris, Ben Affleck, and Noam Chomsky — and the Truth About Radical Islam
It is a pleasure to discover a writer whose thoughts can serve as a baseline of one's own. Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris is just such a guy. His first...
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long history of...
Dr. Phil, Shauli Grossman, Ex-Hassidim, and the True Path to Enlightenment
Writers and pundits of all ideological stripes have weighed in on the controversy surrounding the best-selling "expose" of the Hassidic world by Deborah Feldman and...
Atheists Rally for Irrationality in Washington, D.C.
I know many intelligent, thoughtful people who are not sure one way or the other, about the existence of God. Generally, they are classified as...
Let’s Face it: Dawkins Is Chicken
Richard Dawkins, the highest ranking clergyman in the hierarchy of New Age Atheism, recently informed us of the "real" reason why he refuses to accept...
A (Nicer) Letter to a Christian Nation
My dear Christian cousins, Though it was written more than five years ago, I have just gotten around to reading "Letter to a Christian...
