Thursday, October 26, 2006

Atheist evangelist?

One of the best oxymorons ever....

From the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501998.html

I love the lede:
There are really just two possibilities for Sam Harris. Either he is right and millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews are wrong. Or Sam Harris is wrong and he is so going to hell.

A choice bit:
"I think this country needs a sophisticated attack on religion," says Van Harvey, a retired professor of religious studies at Stanford University. "But pushing moderates into the same camp as fanatics, that seems like a very crude mistake." (me: a religious studies prof thinks we need an "attack on religion"? What kind of prof is that?)

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