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The 'new' atheism is precisely not a form of fundamentalism, Bryson Brown argues; IN RESPONSE: It's not religion that's the problem, it's our capacity for evil, Chris Hedges says ...

How the New Atheists are turning atheism into a religion What is often overlooked, as it grows in respectability, is that the growing cultural affirmation of atheism has been paralleled by a big ...

” R eligion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.” March 1, 2008 March 1, 2008 2 min read Save ...

What most New Atheists are missing, claims Armstrong, is that this literal interpretation of scripture they so revile (which has led in part to modern-day Creationism and Intelligent Design ...

The new atheism came to be seen as deeply flawed for two main reasons. First, they cherry-picked their approach to religion, by focusing on the worst aspects of religion.

“But among the people I’m criticizing—the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett—the heart of their view is a specific conception of cosmology.

To bolster his argument, he doesn't look to atheist philosophers and firebrands, but to Christian heavyweights: St. Augustine, C.S. Lewis, Søren Kierkegaard, and Martin Luther King Jr.

No why-do-the-atheists-shout-so-much speech from me today. Laurie Taylor’s interview with Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton in the July/August edition of New Humanist speaks for its. In his ...

But attacking the New Atheists isn't really her main preoccupation. Indeed, she began her campaign for God well before these writers achieved bestseller fame when she published what I think is ...

In the faith of New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, the very thought of giving Jesus his due is a sacrilege deserving ridicule and rejection.