Comments on: Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s So Great about Christianity

By: The crypto inquisitors : The Uncredible Hallq

The crypto inquisitors : The Uncredible Hallq — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:27:33 +0000

[...] the social order. If the topic is what the Inquisition did to the Jews of Spain, you hear about how the Inquisition only targeted Jews who pretended to convert to Christianity, so they could avoid get… If the topic is Galileo, we are told that the idea that the Church was opposing science is a [...]

By: The Uncredible Hallq » Review of Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition Part I: Morality

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:34:48 +0000

[...] Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition is possibly the most entertaining and original of the various anti-atheist books that have come out in the past two years, if for no other reason than that it’s thesis is so radical: that rejection of Scholastic Aristotelianism is responsible for atheism, same-sex marriage, bestiality, necrophilia, the coming fall of Western Civilization, and condoms. From the point of view of a philosophy student like myself, it is actually worthwhile, both because it gives a decent explanation of Aristotelianism and because it gives a sense of what the big deal was when Descartes made his début. Ultimately, the book has a lot of problems, including the fact that Feser doesn’t really understand anything that’s happened in philosophy since the Middle Ages. Still, it’s a more worthwhile book than say, Berlinski’s or D’Souza’s. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:14:02 +0000

I’ve always found D’Souza to be one of the most frustrating apologists to read/watch because he’s so articulate and “clean” and therefore seems reasonable unless you look deeper into the actual content. I’d imagine he’s able to convince a lot of people based on his way of speaking alone.