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Dougherty Reviews Sam Harris’ Letter To A Christian Nation; Keep Surfeited Surfeited

It shouldn’t be surprising that someone who believes that religion deserves no quarter in a decent world radiates condescension and hostility from time to time. “You believe that your religious concerns about sex, in all their tiresome immensity, have something to do with morality. And yet, your efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting […]

It shouldn’t be surprising that someone who believes that religion deserves no quarter in a decent world radiates condescension and hostility from time to time. “You believe that your religious concerns about sex, in all their tiresome immensity, have something to do with morality. And yet, your efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults . . . are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering. . . . This prudery of yours contributes daily to the surplus of human misery.” Does anyone else find it odd that someone thinks sexual morality should be “geared toward the relief of human suffering”? Not just me, then. Harris has opened himself up to counter-attack here. Obviously it is not people following Christian sexual morality that are spreading STDs, which cause so much suffering. In fact, it’s high time we start questioning the theological propositions held by cads and sluts. Where is their concern for human suffering? ~Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael does a fine job reviewing–and poking holes in–Harris’ work, and does so in his admirably irreverent style.  Speaking of irreverence, Michael’s blog, Surfeited with Dainties, will start becoming less and less surfeited with dainties or much else unless it receives the support of readers like you.  At the very least, save the world from one more lawyer and lend your support. 

Who else but Michael will be able to tell us how to be The Guy and not be the Guy?  Who else effortlessly weaves together pop culture referencesdistributist thought, conservative social thought, Catholicismimmigration restrictionism, economic nationalism and advice on the suitable fashiondance and drink of (slightly-roguish-but-undyingly-faithful-to-their-ladyfriends) gentlemen?  Who else so stylishly mocks the inanities of neoconservative foreign policy?  Lend your support and keep Surfeited with Dainties a source of refinement, solace and refreshment in the vulgar and crass desert that is the blogosphere.

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