I suggested the other day that I think it’s stupid and misguided to treat criticism of religious ideas and doctrines—even harsh, sarcastic, mocking criticism—as a form of “bigotry” akin to racism. I think Atrios nailed this pretty well last week, and even before I read his captivating and deft The Elementary Particles, I had a […]

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The latest entry in the ongoing theological throwdown between Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan (about which I hope to offer some more general thoughts once the dust has cleared) contained a claim that made me perk up, because I’d just been discussing this very question with a friend: I remain open to evidence and argument […]

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Via Megan, Robin Hanson wants to know: Last November we learned that the US public believes in God more than college professors, who believe more than professors at elite schools….If all we know about a view was that professors held it more, and elite professors even more so, we would be inclined to favor that […]

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I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but it seems that Virginia Republican Virgil Goode is up to the task: [I]f American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. I fear that in the […]

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