Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Maher's Statistics
Category: RELIGION
What Bill Maher, Sam Harris and many others like them fail to realize is that religion as it is practiced is a product of a wide array of factors, the official texts being only one of them. People of any faith are more shaped by the norms of their cultural context, interpreting their religious texts to comport with those norms rather than the other way around.
By Timothy E. Kaldas, ContributorWriter, commentator and professor of politics based at Nile Un..., 2014-10-11