I want to start with the last words, in the last days what are you referencing . Referencing a specific faith tradition. Theres a lot of work in apologetics coming out the new atheists have gotten very aggressive in the 21st century a. Where the new atheists . Usually talking about the four horsemen, Richard Dawkins, he wrote a book called the god delusion but he has some cold followers, sam harris, Christopher Hitchens passed on, and Daniel Bennett abthe column the four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse. They are aggressive and angry. The old atheism of the 20th century was much more live and let live. The idea was i cant believe but if you want to believe that to our business and is probably good for you and probably good for society. The new atheists will have none of this. They will say i dont believe and to make sure nobody else believes either and im going to crusade to try to destroy everybodys faith. Part of it is playing a little off the apocalypticism of the new atheist. Tal
Is a Remarkable Book about some incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple things on tap some random thought, jeannie, i know you have a few . Im kind of obsessed with looking at bestseller lists which you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im also is interested in something that pops up unexpectedly. I talked a couple weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird is a prime example. We know why and we know why handmaids tale was there but this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. By william athis is a book that was written was published i think early 80s written in 1978 by william lee he moaned. I think he was an english professor he had lost his job and separated from his wife and he got in a 40 Econoline Van 1975 van and road what he called the blue highways. This was before gps. All the back roads were colored blue. Those were the roads he chose to take. He went to 38 of the 50 states and ju