Tag: atheism
Jesus vs the Confederacy
Amidst the violence and brokenness in Charlottesville, Virginia, this picture (I’m unsure of the source) has been circulating widely: There’s a lot going on here, and probably nothing as striking as the image of a black police officer standing guard...
Gotta Serve Somebody
When a friend sent me the link to this essay by a progressive bookstore employee, whose aching moral dilemma is whether to sell a book he disagrees with politically, my response was simple. I said, “American progressive culture has become...
New Atheism vs Science
Thomas Nagel has an erudite and punchy review of a new book by “Four Horseman” Daniel Dennett. Read the whole thing here, but here’s the haymaker: I am reminded of the Marx Brothers line: “Who are you going to believe,...
Who Framed Christopher Hitchens?
One of my favorite books from 2016 was Larry Taunton’s The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, which I reviewed for Mere-O. I found it to be a gripping spiritual biography of an atheist. No, the words “spiritual biography of an atheist”...