Archive for May, 2007
A Review of Sam Harris' The End of Faith Part V
Listen to the MP3 May 25, 2007, Wausau, Wi— The previous parts (I, II, III, IV ) of my review of Sam Harris’ The End Of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, focused on how distorted Harris’s view of religion was, and pointed out that his critique does not really apply to Christianity. In […]
Read More..>>Memorial Day
Tom’s father had died a couple of years earlier in an accident, leaving a wife and four children. It was the middle of the depression and times were tough. Tom, being the oldest, worked while finishing High School, to help make ends meet. After he graduated, he joined the military, and after training he was […]
Read More..>>The Iraq War – Should we have gone? Part I
As I argued in the first post of this series, if someone views terrorism as primarily criminal acts instead of acts of war, it is unlikely they will see any justification for the war in Iraq, and that is at the root of much of the current debate. Yet even if it is agreed that […]
Read More..>>A Review of Sam Harris' The End of Faith Part IV
Listen to the MP3 May 18, 2007, Wausau, Wi— So far, in our review (I, II, III) Sam Harris’ The End Of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, we have seen how Harris’s irrational view of religion has lead him to many false conclusions and beliefs. Harris attempts to back up some of his […]
Read More..>>Gas Insanity
Einstein famously defined Insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Based on this definition, we are clearly into insanity when it comes to gas prices. I have been observing this since the 1980s, and I am sure that it goes back before this. Every summer prices go up […]
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