by William Kilpatrick | Apr 9, 2024
Suppose someone offered you a shiny quarter in exchange for the tattered $10 bill in your wallet. Would you bite? Silly question. But that’s the kind of exchange proffered in The Da Vinci Code, and apparently, a lot of people are biting. Many scholars have criticized...
by William Kilpatrick | Aug 30, 2022
But it got some things right. The attack on Salman Rushdie reminds us once again of the difference between Islam and other religions. In response to the publication of The Satanic Verses, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death fatwa in 1989 against Rushdie which...
by William Kilpatrick | May 17, 2020
If you’re a relativist who believes that there are no universal standards, then you have no right to criticize Islam. Consider the following headline: “Mississippi: Atheist faces execution for insulting Jesus on Facebook”. The alert reader will immediately recognize...
