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Hitchens Was Wrong

by slenocchio on 10/16/23, 4:25 PM with 4 comments

  • by keiferski on 10/16/23, 4:37 PM

    If you're interested in religion but want to go beyond the New Atheists, I recommend picking up a book like Refuting the New Atheists or Atheist Delusions. You don't need to be a religious person to realize that the Hitchens/Dawkins approach is an extremely shallow one that basically no scholar of religion takes seriously. They are mostly just polemics aimed at causing controversy to sell books. If you want a real critique of Christianity, pick up Nietzsche instead.

    I also recommend A Secular Age, which isn't about the New Atheists, but shows how religion and secularism / atheism are not as simple as some think.

  • by slenocchio on 10/16/23, 4:25 PM

    Any feedback is appreciated! Trying to write something every week.