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Entries by Andrew Pessin from 06/2010

Tony Judt's Trojan Gift Horse

| Posted 06.14.2010 | World
Read More: Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Arabs, Israel Lobby, Tony Judt, World News

Tony Judt advertises himself as offering a discussion of Israel "without clichés." But this generous offer is, clearly, one gift horse whose mouth should be looked into.

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God Is Not One -- But Religions May Be

| Posted 06.21.2010 | Religion
Read More: Stephen Prothero, Prothero God Is Not One, Atheism, Religious Differences, Positive Nihilism, Religious Pluralism, Stephen Prothero God Is Not One, Nihilism, Religion News

All religions may well be ultimately the same, Prothero's book notwithstanding -- systems of practices and beliefs that share many of the same attributes and values, including, perhaps ironically, that of not being literally true.

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