An ally in the fight against shoddy thinking

Thanks to the indispensable Mick Hartley, I've just discovered David Thompson's excellent blog, which tackles some of the issues that I've tried to cover here of late, such as anti-secularism, 'root causes' thinking and bogus attempts to identify an equivalence of fundamentalisms. Further to these recent posts, it was particularly satisfying to come across Thompson's detailed, painstaking rebuttals of the opinions of Madeleine Bunting and Karen Armstrong. Recommended reading.