Tag Archives: New Atheism
Four Reasons Christianity Hasn’t Been Explained Away
The New Theism
The rhetoric of the New Atheism is so extreme that their arguments are often lost in the resultant “trolling” and “twitter wars”. This is a shame: there are many secularists who do not want to eradicate religion, but who nevertheless accept some of the central claims of the new atheists.
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Posted in Christian Theology, Existence of God, Historical Jesus
Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Christianity and Science, Evidence for God, Faith and Reason, Gnus, History, New Atheism
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Three Reasons to Admire Dawkins
Numerous twitter feeds and blogs reliably inform us that Richard Dawkins ‘no longer speaks for atheism’. I am quite sure that no person or organisation ever spoke for atheism, or ever will. Nonetheless, even atheists who once praised “The God Delusion” are now quick to point out that they will continue to tell their children fairy tales, that they do not believe that rapes can be graded according to their severity and that they think it is perfectly moral to chose to have a child with Down’s Syndrome ( and heaven help us if we now have to make that clear!) For those of us who do not even see much by way of persuasive argument in “The God Delusion”, it is all to easy to forget that there are many reasons to admire Richard Dawkins.
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Tagged #Pray-to-End-Abortion, Abortion, Dawkins, New Atheism, Popologetics
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