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To: Brumar89 who wrote (60580)	12/8/2002 11:55:43 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Start with Republic of Fear, his portrait of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. A landmark book, it's the best study out there of Saddam's totalitarian state. tb@yup.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (60580)	12/9/2002 2:19:12 AM
From: Climber	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Excellent find, Brumar. it is also an attempt to smuggle the latest research on the Prophet Mohammed to an Arab audience. A critical exegesis of the Koran and Islamic thought is way overdue. Hopefully Makiya can inspire more efforts in this direction. I have one quibble with Cohen's article: Western Christianity was undermined not only by Darwin but by the nineteenth-century search for the real Jesus of history. I think the opposite is true. Darwin strengthened modern religious thinking, and helped make it more rigorous, in much the same way as Galileo did -- he helped to show that the Universe is far more astonishing and sublime than conventional wisdom had dared imagine. He helped us begin to appreciate a God who is equal to the wonders of the created world, the mysteries of which we are slowly discovering. My fear is that Fundamentalists of all kind tend to revere a Small God, one who is too much like us, parochial and vengeful and too easily explained. They don't get the mystery, or the humor for that matter. Climber