I’ve just completed my second pass on The Gospel of Dawkins (a.k.a. The God Delusion). I owe you, my readers, a long overdue review of this book as part of my Creepy Library: New Atheists series. One of the reasons it has taken me longer to post my review is that I want to treat [...]
“How can we encourage other human beings to extend their moral sympathies beyond a narrow locus? How can we learn to become mere human beings, shorn of any more compelling national, ethnic, or religious identity? We can be reasonable. It is in the very nature of reason to fuse cognitive and moral horizons. Reason is [...]
I just finished reading the book, Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris. In the Note to the Reader section, Harris is clear about the purpose of his book. “While this book is intended for people of all faiths, it has been written in the form of a letter to a Christian. In it, [...]