Andy, you're dandy

I admit to having had little use for Andrew Sullivan: an ostensible Catholic and conservative who favors gay marriage and occasionally gets hysterical when the Church reiterates this-or-that which has been taught ab initio. (That he's gay himself is irrelevant.) But I must also admit to being impressed by his ongoing joust with atheist apologist Sam Harris. The latest installment repays a full read.

I myself haven't bothered overmuch with the Harrises and the Dawkinses because their arguments are no better, no more original, and no more numerous than those which I had heard in various bars and dorm rooms by the time I was a sophomore at Columbia. But dealing with those guys is a dirty job that somebody has to do for the sake of protecting the gullible. I'm glad Andrew Sullivan is doing it. He may yet redeem himself.