A few thoughts on my reactionary response to reactionary atheism

[heresybythought]

I just finished God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.  Now, I knew this was a book I would disagree with, I know that Hitchens' glib approach to religion gets even my goat sometimes.  But he's an entertaining fellow and I'd hardly be a person I'd want to talk to if I didn't keep up with the other side.

That said, the book was far worse-reasoned

Comments

[g4bz0r]

Atheists and agnostics, myself included, are largely uncognizant of the segment of Christianity which does not condemn homosexuality as an abomination, does not declare the Bible to be the unalloyed and infallible Word of God, and does not seek to install itself as federal law. We are aware of individuals, but tend to dismiss you as the minority instead of considering the possibility that many Christians keep quiet about their beliefs and focus on Jesus' message of peace and love rather than the cultural context in which it was spread.

Sorry.

[heresybythought]

That's a fair point (I thought I conceded it?) but I expect an well-educated intellectual writing about how religion is a fallacy to do more homework.

[g4bz0r]

Yeah, I don't mean to refute any part of your post, just to apologise on my own behalf for exhibiting some of the fallacies he does.

[krasiviye_slova]

Ah...the new atheists. Not my favorites, and I find atheism to be a very respectable philosophical stance. No disrespect to Bart Ehrman, whom I quite like, but he's the "Christian" scholar quoted. Uhuh. Yeah. Not so much.

[heresybythought]

Ehrman's a little too pop-religion for me, which may be a sign of my snobbishness more than anything else. But I thought his New Testament text book made fat too many unsubstantiated claims.