The comments are already coming in fast and furious on my response to Sam Harris’s Bombing Our Illusions (er, except that lost most of them through my own technical error - sorry!r), and Harris has written a rebuttal (not to my piece, but to his commenters). My reactions so far:
Harris acknowledges the violent and self-contradictory nature of portions of the Bible, but suggests that Islam’s message is far less ambiguous than that of the Bible.
In doing so,...
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