Richard Dawkins on Islam and Christianity (Part 6)
In addition to criticizing both Judaism and Christianity, Richard Dawkins also takes the time to criticize Islam. Dawkins first correctly points out that Islam ...
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God, Animal Cruelty, Sex, and Jesus…and Richard Dawkins’ Peculiar Take On All of It (Part 5)
Richard Dawkins on…Judaism? “Originally a tribal cult of a single fiercely unpleasant God, morbidly obsessed with sexual restrictions, with the smell of charred...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Part 4–Charities and the Trinity
Before we leave Dawkins chapter, “The God Hypothesis,” I feel the need to point out a number of other rather inflammatory and questionable comments Dawkins make...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: Chapter 2:1–“The God Hypothesis” (Part 3)
Dawkins’ second chapter in his book The God Delusion is entitled “The God Hypothesis.” Needless to say, that is quite a broad category. After all, depending on ...
The Dawkins Delusion (Part 2): “A Deeply Religious Non-Believer” (Chapter 1)
Dawkins: The Philosophical Naturalist The first chapter of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion is entitled “A Deeply Religious Non-Believer.” In it, Dawkins makes...
Disarming Richard Dawkins’ Delusions (Part 1)
Ah, the Gospel of Atheism! Atheism fascinates me. Not the kind of atheism in which someone simply says, “I don’t believe God exists,” and then just goes about l...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Conclusion 10:2
Sam Harris perhaps represents the most dangerous form of atheism. It is inflammatory, irrational, hostile, and missionary. He is not content to “let the facts s...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Conclusion–Part 10:1
Now we come to the conclusion of my critique of Sam Harris’s book, The End of Faith. What I have attempted to show in this detailed analysis is the following: H...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Scientific Spirituality and a Hopeless Contradiction (Part 9)
Sam Harris’ final chapter in The End of Faith is entitled, “Experiments in Consciousness.” In light of the basic premise of his book (i.e. faith is destructive ...
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...