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 [...]
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Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s So Great about Christianity
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 24, 2008
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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 [...]
Review: Female Chauvanist Pigs
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 12, 2008
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There are at least two things to like about Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture: 1) It’s an impressive example of a book sustaining itself most of the way through without a definite thesis. 2) It contains some insightful observations quoted from a 17 year old boy. No, I [...]
John F. Haught’s God and the New Atheism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 25, 2008
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Though I’m setting this post to go up on a Tuesday afternoon, I’m actually writing it late at night, so I’ll keep my comments on the book short: (1) It’s odd how Haught lumps all the New Atheists together, and doesn’t even seem to much acknowledge Sam Harris’ main claim, that Al-Queda and related groups [...]