http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2006/11/26/the-end-of-faith/ I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes ... or should I? Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:13:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/2006/11/26/the-end-of-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-9924 VirtualChaos - Nadeem’s blog » Book: The Battle for God Sat, 26 May 2007 11:39:09 +0000 http://www.virtualchaos.co.uk/blog/?p=5#comment-9924 [...] A friend of mine lent me this book recently, after I lent him Sam Harris The End of Faith, which I’ve talked about before on this blog. Both books deal with analysing the phenomenon of fundamentalism but the two authors deal with the subject in very different ways. Harris’ book is full of vitriol and lacks any real compassion, whilst some of his arguments are interesting this gets lost in his rabidly anti religious stance, his intolerance of faith is as damaging as the very fundamentalism he discusses. Armstrong on the other hand tries to rationalise and understand monotheistic fundamentalism,by examining in detail Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalism. She examines each of them in turn with dignity and depth and amazing richness of detail particularly from a historical point of view [...] [...] A friend of mine lent me this book recently, after I lent him Sam Harris The End of Faith, which I’ve talked about before on this blog. Both books deal with analysing the phenomenon of fundamentalism but the two authors deal with the subject in very different ways. Harris’ book is full of vitriol and lacks any real compassion, whilst some of his arguments are interesting this gets lost in his rabidly anti religious stance, his intolerance of faith is as damaging as the very fundamentalism he discusses. Armstrong on the other hand tries to rationalise and understand monotheistic fundamentalism,by examining in detail Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalism. She examines each of them in turn with dignity and depth and amazing richness of detail particularly from a historical point of view [...]

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