I post this and people just seem to skip right over it. Very valid points.
Tyler Roberts, M. T. S., Th.D. (2009), employing critical thinking in evaluating the work of pop atheist Sam Harris, said, “For all his claims of religion’s irrationality, some of which do hit their target, Harris’ own failures to think carefully about religion leave him as a kind of mirror image of the fundamentalists he attacks. More specifically, Harris fails to think historically enough about ...religion, and, as a result, he takes modern fundamentalism and its literal interpretation of scripture as the essence of religion without realizing … that fundamentalism itself is a distinctly modern phenomenon, a product of the 19th century. And this 19th-century fundamentalism is itself deeply ahistorical; that is it takes its own view of scriptural inerrancy as somehow the original view of the Bible when, in fact, Christians from a very early point in the tradition were reading the Bible in much more complicated ways. So Harris’ ahistorical effort to reduce all religion to a single essence, shaped by one form of religion, reflects what I would call a kind of secular fundamentalism. To make his argument he, like the fundamentalists he criticizes, ignores a vast amount of historical and conceptual complexity and paints the world in black and white.” (from "Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition," Lecture 33, Track 3.)