Bookforum Omnivore - The End of Religion?

This collection of links from Bookfoum's Omnivore offers some interesting reading material, including the interview with Sam Harris (in Tablet Magazine) that I posted the other day. Also worth reading is Slavoj Zizek's rather subdued (for him), "If there is a God, then anything is permitted."

The end of religion

Jul 30 2012 |  7:00AM

• Stephen LeDrew (York): The Evolution of Atheism: Scientific and Humanistic Approaches. 
• From IEET, will life extension mean the end of religion? 
• It’s a simple but very scary concept — that we live in an “Existential Atheistic Nihilist” world and universe. 
• One of the selling points of religion is that it offers hope in a heartless world; does that mean those without religion are also without hope? 
• A review of The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine. 
• An interview with Greta Christina, author of Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss off the Godless. 
• If there is a God, then anything is permitted. 
• What did Nietzsche mean by the death of God? Benjamen Walker and guests explore the legacy of the German philosopher's statement (and more and more and more). 
• From Secular Web, Michael D. Reynolds on how Christianity has been destroyed. 
• The Christian right, radical Islamists, and secular leftists agree: Sam Harris is America’s most dangerous man. 
• A review of Difficult Atheism: Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux by Christopher Watkin.