Dave, You have been riding that wave, and with humor and intelligence. These new books are great. Thanks for sharing the bit from the Nation. It's now a wave of relief.
Marsha At 04:06 PM 6/12/2007, you wrote: >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...." > >_________________________________________________________________ >PC Magazines 2007 editors choice for best Web >mailaward-winning Windows Live Hotmail. >http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507 > > > >moq_discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
