MercatorNet sends another one sailing out of the park - this time it's about Richard Dawkin's campaign against theism:

Dawkins confuses religion and the use of religion – I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt intellectually and assume he does so deliberately -- in order to promote his thesis that religion is evil. Religion itself is not evil – just as science is not evil – but it can be used for evil purposes, just as science can.

Using religion to convince the 9/11 terrorists to commit mass murder by knocking down the World Trade Towers was a profoundly evil use of religion. Using airplanes to carry out that evil was a profoundly evil use of aeronautical science. However, Dawkins looks only at the evil uses of religion – never the good it effects -- and only the good uses of science – never the harms it does. A balanced ethical approach requires us to recognise both the goods and harms of both religion and science, and to try to stop the evil uses and to promote the good ones of each.

Read the whole thing.

Having children in an anti-children culture:

In an era of sound bites in the battle of ideas, moms and dads are on the frontlines in defending the family in about 15 words or less.

Light book sale this morning, but I found some Dorothy Sayers, George MacDonald, and Albert Schweitzer. Also picked up a historical novel on St. Patrick, an imaginative literature textbook/anthology, and a philosophical work on Money and the Meaning of Life. Oh, and another copy of The Robe: I think I have three now.

Michael Yon has a good grassroots perspective on the intricacies of the Iraq war. His latest dispatch documents the quiet but dramatic arrest of a high-ranking Iraqi coalition official.

"Blink" or "Think": an article about making decisions.