I picked up a copy of Charles Taylor’s _The Secular Age_ because I heard it listed as an example of a response to Dawkins et al. I didn’t finish it, because it hardly responds to them at all, save for in one footnote (p. 835n): Dawkins’ reasons for believing that science can sideline religion hardly [...]
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Non-review: Charles Taylor’s The Secular Age
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 5, 2009
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Review: David Berlinski’s The Devil’s Delusion
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 3, 2009
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As I wade through the sludge of recent anti-atheist tracts, I keep trying to think of ways to make my reviews amusing. For this review of David Berlinski’s book The Devil’s Delusion, I think I can sum it up this way: Berlinksi is one of the mathematicians my mother warned me about. Mom has a [...]
Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s So Great about Christianity
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 24, 2008
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One of the most notable features of Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s So Great about Christianity? is how well it states the arguments of major atheist authors, and how casually it ignores them. Take the issue of whether religion is responsible for violence. D’Souza freely admits that the Torah condones the killing of those who follow other [...]
David Aikman’s _The Delusion of Disbelief_
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 16, 2008
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David Aikman’s The Delusion of Disbelief is a somewhat rambling rebuttal to recent critiques of religion by Dawkins, Harris, et al. The jacket announces that Aikman is a former Time correspondent and bestselling author, with a Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese history. The quality is a bit lower than I’d expect from someone with those [...]