Tag Archives: Fundamentalism

The Materialist As “A Kind of Childishly Complacent Fundamentalist”

I’m reading David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I’ll post a review of it before long, but I suggest you not waste time waiting for me to do that. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. Here’s a taste of it, and a topic for …

September 4, 2011 – 1:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

“When Christianity becomes lethal”

When I opened up Susan Brooks Thislethwaite’s Washington Post opinion piece, “When Christianity Becomes Lethal,” I was skeptical, to say the least. There is a disturbing tendency among some observers—Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are great examples—to treat so-called “fundamentalist” religions indiscriminately, as if all are equally prone to violence. That’s nothing but absurd, as …

July 27, 2011 – 10:31 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (18)