At the very beginning of his book, Sam Harris makes this very true statement: “Your beliefs define your vision of the world; they dictate your behavior; they de...
We’ve now come to the point in our analysis of Sam Harris’ book, The End of Faith, where we will look at the specific things he has to say about “faith.” ...
I’ve found that in the course of my critiques of books by atheist writers like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, that it is actually quite invigorating exerc...
It should come as no surprise in a book entitled, The End of Faith, that Harris refuses to even consider that there might be something to religion in general, a...
Sam Harris, despite all his claims of rationality and reason, is actually rather ignorant when it comes to Christian belief. Sadly, it is rather obvious that he...
One of Sam Harris’ main arguments in The End of Faith against Christianity is that, according to him, the roots of intolerance, repression, and violence are fou...
After a week off from blogging to celebrate Christmas, it’s time to start posting again, well sort of. Over the next few weeks I am going to re-post a series I ...
It is ironic that the central question literary scholars ask concerning the identity of Moby Dick is virtually the exact same question biblical scholars ask con...
One of the main questions concerning Moby Dick is the exact identity of the white whale: is Moby Dick symbolic of God himself, or just symbolic of nat...
At various times in college, I attempted to read Moby Dick—I failed every time. My natural inclination was toward poetry, and Moby Dick was a novel…a long novel...