https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to sam harris en https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/01/how-mens-rights-activists-are-finding-unlikely-allies-new-atheism-metoo-manosphere-and Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is the number of New Atheist figureheads in which… Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:58:35 EST Caroline Matas db424a35-e0e4-4396-a50a-cc3aa08ee926 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/26/atheisms-dark-side-aiding-trump-agenda Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he approves of the goal of keeping radicals out… Sun, 26 Feb 2017 08:44:51 EST Stephen LeDrew c602093b-3db0-4622-842e-f2a27c7fe71c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/30/how-do-christians-atheists-compare-muslim-tolerance Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:36:40 EDT Darren Sherkat 0ab1fba7-3ee9-4801-af6e-645365a58254 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/25/sam-harris-really-white-supremacist-part-two Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the previous week. The piece’s headline… Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:46:53 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 7ee550dc-ff6e-46d0-8a9a-0871a7004f7e https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/18/sam-harris-really-white-supremacist By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with Salon, AlterNet, The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and plenty of religious leaders. Whether Harris is a brawler because he loves to fight, or because conflict is… Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:00:20 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson 79cf8171-68fe-4698-b6ca-cc6d5e79151d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/12/fighting-fire-ire-3-lessons-noam-chomskys-takedown-sam-harris The day before Mayweather fought Pacquiao, New Atheist Sam Harris released an email sparring match he’d had with famed linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky. In his bestselling book The End of Faith, Harris had accused Chomsky of drawing a… Tue, 12 May 2015 02:07:44 EDT Andrew Aghapour 3a9b9a25-345d-4989-b413-09199e80817b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/19/religion-blame-violence-karen-armstrongs-flawed-case Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on the notion that “religion is inherently violent” or that religion and war go together like a horse and carriage, news broke of the latest… Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:23:46 EST Paul Harvey 6808fe1b-af82-44ff-9852-72959add2232 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/23/karen-armstrong-caped-anti-anti-muslim-crusader When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!” Hate may be too strong a… Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:58:57 EDT Brook Wilensky-Lanford fb8dc5ea-15d8-4a5e-90b6-967f3d8c84e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/02/demonized-and-demonizing-no-more Faitheist author Chris Stedman on why the genre of embattled atheist polemic may have run its course. Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:22:21 EDT Joanna Brooks 00902ae9-479a-4b36-9e3d-82e97c9864ce https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/20/atheist-schism “Atheism+” formed to address social justice problems in the atheist community, but it may have to reckon with religion. Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:28:13 EDT Katie Toth c16eca59-e304-48a1-a4b5-244f1f0043c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/30/atheists-ignore-islamophobia-their-peril There’s been a lot of talk in the American atheist movement about social justice, but why doesn’t it include justice for religious minorities like Muslims and Sikhs? Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:24:37 EDT Chris Stedman 6f059e22-94c6-4951-a22b-5b7c01002a1a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/20/simon-critchley-atheist-religious-thinker-utopia-fiction-faith Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant. Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:18:49 EDT Beatrice Marovich 1e45ec18-9506-45a7-850f-53c9a707e3b7 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/06/sam-harris-says-quran-not-good Now where have we heard that before… Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:47:47 EDT Hussein Rashid d109254b-b1e1-4bdc-a8b7-fbc9d48b1125 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/13/science-little-help-personhood-issues Science just doesn’t do purpose. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:15:09 EST Paul Wallace 474bcf6b-b371-49a1-9401-a126c0f5b3b5 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/05/27/its-time-reconsider-graduation-prayer-public-high-schools Non-believers and the community of liberal believers, typically the ones attempting to ban religious imagery from the public square, have avoided specifying which forms of communal expression of meaning are appropriate. Fri, 27 May 2011 07:01:16 EDT Bruce Ledewitz 7df5f156-78fa-4859-bc41-2a843a266c13 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/29/unreasonable-doubt-vincent-bugliosi-defends-agnosticism When he’s not writing bestselling books, Vincent Bugliosi is a legendary prosecuting attorney. As such, he is certainly well acquainted with the legal policy of presumption of innocence. His newest book, Divinity of Doubt, a treatise on agnosticism, would have been much better if Bugliosi had taken this principle into account in the context of his arguments for, and against, God. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:34:47 EDT Eric Reitan 649914e9-8194-4696-95f5-4e4a68e8d07b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/14/debating-god-atheist-and-evangelical-face-notre-dame The University of Notre Dame had cause for its anxiety leading up to last week’s big debate between the New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris and the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig. It’s said that all publicity is good publicity, but one needn’t strain too hard to find an exception—least of all in the history of God debates. Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:06:27 EDT Nathan Schneider 074ef7de-0314-4c24-a50a-9079f9191ff4 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/01/18/zeitgeist-blend-skepticism-metaphysical-spirituality-and-conspiracy The film admired by Jared Loughner defies categorization but ultimately offers a dark vision. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:50:20 EST Michael J. Altman b9fd2251-9827-40fa-8b99-b947965dcaee https://religiondispatches.org/2010/12/09/dear-scientists-please-stop-bashing-free-will Numerous studies showing that decision-making appears to occur well before we believe we’ve made the decision, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to give up on free will just yet. Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:36:01 EST John Horgan 8e20fb0f-e346-49cf-adae-ade7be3ff200 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/26/little-value-new-harris-book Sam Harris latest, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, is undermined by poor scholarship, ad hominem attacks and an obsession with religion. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:51:42 EDT Michael Ruse 485ebb9e-6a21-4d9a-96c2-4ae9cbbf3a3b https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/20/dining-dawkins-humanist-bosom The humanist community assembled many of its leading lights recently to award Richard Dawkins a prize for furthering rational thought. A secular humanist convention is not the witches’ coven that some sheltered theists might expect. I did not see anyone smoking and never heard a profane word. Drinking at the reception was modest by anyone but a teetotaler’s standards, and far less than at the Episcopal fundraiser I’d attended the previous week. Also unlike the Episcopal affair, I did not spot a single same-sex couple. I began to wonder how much fun these people, freed from religion’s rules, were having with their liberty. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:44:02 EDT Edward J. Larson 343125f1-8bbd-450a-9900-4cbda17383d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/10/29/decomposing-humanism-why-replace-religion Humanists are right to think that there is more to life than atheism, but wrong to think that they are the ones to provide it. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:03:39 EDT Austin Dacey 11461deb-cd1e-4c6d-9317-85d5708c667b https://religiondispatches.org/2009/09/10/religion-and-science-toward-postmodern-truce The New Atheists, armed with swords and cudgels, are still doing old-fashioned battle with religion; but they haven’t noticed that the skirmish may have passed them by. Are religion and science poised for a truce? Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:05:48 EDT Philip Clayton 71c6ce37-5207-433e-bdc8-f044cc20ff18 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/31/unreasonable-atheists Does a belief that science and religion can co-exist in harmony disqualify Francis Collins from leading the NIH? Decisively not. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:25:39 EDT Arri Eisen b04170df-3d84-4407-9aa0-4ec82346b0c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/31/when-atheists-cry-heresy-sam-harris-condemns-obama-pick-nih Sam Harris, a leading voice in the so-called New Atheism, believes that religious faith disqualifies a leading scientist from heading the National Institutes of Health. What does this reveal about the ideological prejudices of this brand of secularism? Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:15:58 EDT Eric Reitan 7571dbff-3fab-4899-8c75-ab4a9f339892