Christ the Tao

I have been taking what readers may think a very long time to review Hector Avalos' book, Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Vio...

An important part of any argument consists of anticipating and rebutting potential counter-punches.   Dr. Avalos therefore dedicates Part 3 ...

Let's skip Dr. Avalos' deconstruction of the Old Testament, and move to what for Christians is the heart of the matter: his attempt...

Urban II preaching the Crusade. One of the most impressive qualities of Dr. Avalos' Fighting Words is the number and breadth of so...

Snoqualmie Falls during an autumn flood I plan to post another violent attack on Hector Avalos' Fighting Words: The Origins of Relig...

The eminent atheist philosopher, Dr. Keith Parsons, recently defended Hume's critique of miracles . I think Dr. Parsons is wrong on bo...

Return from the Crusade, by Karl Lessing Hector Avalos' Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence promises to cover four ...

Hector Avalos is an atheist who teaches religious studies (of course!) at Iowa State University.  He is not, let us be clear, a fan of rel...

The debate over religion in the West is dominated by Christians, on the one side, and atheists or secularists, on the other, with some input...

In China this fall, I often stayed at a new chain called "Like Home" hotels. I joked that one way they reminded me of home, was th...

T w e l v e B o o k s t h a t s h o w h o w Chris t mas c h a n g e d t h e w o r l d . On the twelfth day of Christmas, our True L...

Twelve Books that show how Chris t mas changed the world. On the eleventh day of Christmas, our True Love gave the world: reform in East ...