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A Good Pastor Challenges His Congregation

There's a delightful faith-o-tainment article by Joe Bob Briggs over at the Wittenburg Door, recounting his attendance at a recent conference here in DC. It was a gathering of atheists, discussing atheism and the deep h…
Now Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding

Into the ongoing cultural discussion about Christmas displays and seasonal good cheer comes this interesting little factoid from the British Broadcasting Service. In a recent discussion on a BBC talk show, some support …
A Nice Red Wine Goes Well with Spaghetti Monster

Y'all have heard, of course, of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The "FSM" is the brainchild of an Oregon-based physics student by the name of Bobby Henderson. Back in 2005, Henderson got so peeved with the Kansas Board…
The Product of Failure

When, finally, Sam Harris reaches the end of his clumsily simplistic Letter to a Christian Nation, I find myself able to agree with him...or at least, to agree with the first clause of the first sentence of his conclusio…
Fun with Dick and Jain

In my last post, I noted that our good friend and atheist Mr. Sam Harris seems to have something of a forbidden crush on Jainism, that ancient and radically nonviolent faith that's shares it's history with Hinduism. Th…
The Long Arm of the Law, Part 2

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY? CELEBRATE NATIONAL STUFFITY ANIMAL WEEK! In Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris goes deeper in his challenge to the validity of faith, down to the heart of the law itself. Having imagin…
With Friends Like These...

When Presbyterians dish out a whupping, we do it systematically. So my dissection of our good atheist friend Mr. Harris and Letter to A Christian Nation shall continue. In his beginning to a section entitled "The Goodn…
Nose Pickin' Baby Killers

I'm going to keep whuppin' on Sam Harris for a few more posts. I mean, goodness, my church is going to be paying for this book out of my study allowance, so I may as well give 'em their money's worth. Having establishe…
Of Course, You Realize That This Means War

Admittedly, Letter to a Christian Nation is too negligible a book to really go deep into the nature of faith, but having read interviews with Harris, I confess to having been more than a little disappointed. He had, to …
Not At This Address

Last night, in lieu of playing Metroid, I punched down Sam Harrises' teensy little book, Letter to a Christian Nation. It was such a quick read that I found myself thinking: is this even a book? It rings in at under 1…

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