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I see very little promise in grounding a moral realism (insofar as such a thing is ultimately a viable project) in terms of evolutionary fitness, and much more promise is taking Harris’ tack.
Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity.
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.
Identity politics is imprisoning artists within silos of their own immediate experience and impoverishing the creative imagination.
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
The doctrine of inerrancy, on the other hand, places intolerable constraints on polite conversation, our only known alternative to violence.
The words are usually associated with Eastern or New Age spirituality, and they sound as bizarre on the tongue of a science-minded atheist as an Arab Bible-believer.
A woman whose life story, by any rational, humane standards, should win encomia from, and the admiration of, decent people everywhere.
As it turns out, the phenomenon of a young man becoming radicalized after reading his religion’s holy book for the first time has been around for thousands of years.
Aslan peddles a sanitized version of Islam to gullible viewers.
The misguided progressives who denounce “Islamophobia” and turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of, say, women, gays, and adherents of other religions in Muslim communities or in Islamic countries constitute what Maajid Nawaz has dubbed the “regressive left.”
Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed.