Author Archives: David Glass
New Atheism’s Wardrobe Malfunction
But he thought, “This procession has got to go on.” So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at all.”
Given the nature of the New Atheists’ attack on religious belief, it is not surprising that they have come in for a lot of criticism.
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Dawkins, Christmas and the God of the Physicists
An objection to Christianity often found in popular atheism is that if there is a God he would not sully himself by getting involved in human affairs. In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins claims that, compared to the God of the Bible, a deist God who starts the universe off and then leaves it to its own devices is:
an altogether grander being: worthy of his cosmic creation, loftily unconcerned with human affairs, sublimely aloof from our private thoughts and hopes, caring nothing for our messy sins or mumbled contritions.
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Tagged Apathy, Dawkins, New Atheism, Philosophy, Physics, Who and What is God?, Who Cares About God?
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