Marsha said:
Finally!!!
http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/christopher-hitchens-on-the-essential-stupidity-of-religion/16489/
dmb says:
Thanks for that. T'was fun to read. The cover story for the current (June
25) issue of The Nation is titled "The New Atheists" It describes a wave of
books, including the one written by Hitchens. I like to think I've been
surfing this wave. Here's a little taste from The Nation...
"What began with publisher W.W. Norton taking a chance on a gutsy,
hyperbolic and idiosyncratic attack on religion by a graduate student in
neuroscience has grown into a remarkable intellectual wave. No fewer than
five books by the New Atheists have appeared on bestseller lists in the past
two years - Sam Harris's "The End of Faith" and "Letter to a Christian
Nation", Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell", Richard Dawkins's "The God
Delusion" and now Christopher Hitchens's "God is Not Great". The scandalized
media have both attacked and inflated the phenomenon. ...
...The success of the New Atheists may, however, reflect something
significant among their audience. In the past generation in the United
States, atheists, agnostics and secular humanists have been a timid minority
- almost voiceless, often on the defensive, routinely derided, both warned
against and ignored. ...it was as if they did not exist. This is what the
polls are telling us: Virtually everyone in America believes in God. ...The
great success of the New Atheists is to have reached them, both speaking to
and for them. These writers are devoted, with sledgehammer force and angry
urgency, to 'breaking the spell' cast by the religous ascendancy, to
overcoming a situation in which every other area of life can be critically
analyzed while admittedly irrational religious faith is made central to
American life but exempted from serious discussion...."
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