THE NEW ATHEISTS: SO NINETEENTH CENTURY

Recently I ran across this excellent article by Mark Shea, Padding the Case for New Atheism.  He skewers the so-called New Atheists -- namely, Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens -- who, despite their pretensions as rational freethinking "Brights" unfettered by the dusty dogmas of oppressive churchmen, are so benighted as to not even know that all their allegedly devastating arguments against religious belief have been resoundingly countered by theists for centuries.  Worse yet, they can't even recycle in modern garb the arguments of their atheist predecessors to good effect, because they barely understand, if at all, those religious beliefs they so vociferously damn.  Indeed, they have made the New Atheism an embarrassing hash of contradictions, question-begging, and stolen concepts.  All of this I came to understand about today's militant atheists in my own plodding way back to the Church, but Shea boils it down to a fine polemic against the fellas who are better described as the New Fundamentalists.

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[Cordellqy]

Great post.., guy