Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: A Science of Good and Evil? (Part 8:2)
Yesterday, I began to look at Sam Harris’ attempt to root morality within the field of science. Needless to say, such a claim is highly problematic. As I should...
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Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Can Science be the Basis of Morality? (Part 8:1)
Despite his attacks on religion and “faith,” atheist Sam Harris nevertheless holds to his own presuppositional faith in “science,” namely that there can be a “s...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Let’s Get Reasonable about Religion, the Death Penalty, Drugs and Sex (Part 7)
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...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Faith and Intolerance (Part 6)
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.” ...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: A Biblical Scholar, He Ain’t (Part 5)
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...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Hear nothing good, see nothing good…at least not in Christianity! (Part 4)
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: Heretics, and Pagans, and Christians, O My! (Part 3)
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...
Sam Harris: On Faith and Hell (Part 2)
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...
Book Review: Sam Harris and “The End of Faith” (The Bible, Part 1)
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 ...
Finale! Saying Goodbye to Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens is a kick to read. At the beginning of this last post on his book, god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, I want to make one th...