Tag Archives: Violence

“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)

Atheism and Violence

Regarding “new atheists” who imagine a faith-less peaceful utopia: “One would think that, given their insistence that faith and violence are inextricably linked, these authors would be a bit more circumspect about their own rhetoric. As it happens, one does not have to read too far into these books to see an underlying advocacy of …

January 29, 2008 – 8:46 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments (69)