[MD] Sam Harris, revisited by one reviewer

[Ian Glendinning]

Be interesting to see an example argument for that opinion.

I expected to find that impression of Harris when I read him (having
previously read Dawkins and already decided he was an arrogant
nutcase, despite Dennett being already being a hero of mine) but in
fact I found both Harris and Hitchens to be subtle and sophisticated
in their arguments. Plenty of "nastiness" in their examples of extreme
religious practices ... of which they clearly express their
"intolerance" ... but the headlines seemed to be representing them as
much more "shrill" than their actual arguments.

Ian

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:52 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> More from a link I sent to Jon B regarding what the author calls, "the
> neo-atheists".  The author himself is an atheist, so I find his criticism
> more cogent than I could provide.
>
> http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_oh_to_be.html
>
> "This sloppiness and lack of intellectual scruple, with the assumption of
> certainty where there is none, combined with adolescent shrillness and
> intolerance, reach an apogee in Sam Harris’s book *The End of Faith*. It is
> not easy to do justice to the book’s nastiness; it makes Dawkins’s claim
> that religious education constitutes child abuse look sane and moderate."
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