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Ruminations During History of Philosophy

I thought this semester was going to be fairly uneventful. Now, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get through it without some kind of therapy. For now, my therapy has been reading rational thinkers like Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins. I started with Letter to a Christian Nation , which I actually read as a Christian when it first came out in 2006. I've also read Harris' The End of Faith . Before leaving for South Dakota, I read Atheist Universe , another good rational book. This semester, after going back over Letter to a Christian Nation , I read Breaking the Spell and am now almost finished with God is Not Great . In addition, I have read some of A People's History of the United States , which sure points a nice lens on Christianity's past atrocities. My Faith and Life class has about driven me to tears. I can hardly believe that college educated people could spout off so much nonsense in so short a class period. The class