[shrinkermd]

This is a well written, readable review of a current topic. The CSM is a great national newspaper IMHO but its title has always held it back in spite of the fair, balanced and intelligent content.

This article is typical of the writing style which is crystal clear prose with no affectations or egregious hostile shots at anyone.

[sinanju]

Hello? It's not those quaint bible-wavers who are sawing off heads on YouTube or blowing up innocent people on Al Jazeera. It's not christians who hold a third of the world in poverty and oppression. It's not christians who enslave women and, who indeed, still practice slavery. It's not christians who...

Well, you get my drift. Do these brave, enlightened atheists have anything to say to people who still actually have a medieval mindset and who might actually hurt something besides their wittle feewings?

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...Alan Wolfe, a professor of religion ..., who is a secularist..."

Huh?

[samm1148]

"In bestselling books, on websites, and with a national lobbying effort, atheists and other nontheists are challenging the growing religious influence in government and public life."

Yeah right; now that Roe vs. Wade is overturned and vouchers offer Christians school choice us brain dead Christians can turn and defeat the gay marriage issue.

Right now I wouldn't be surprised if the ACLU would come up with a lawsuit closing all churches (they are after all surrounded by public streets). Of course tattooing numbers on Christian's arms won't be far behind. There's an original idea; last accomplished by Adolph Hitler.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"For someone to say they can't practice their religion appropriately if all schoolchildren are not required to recite a public prayer is very disturbing."

Even more disturbing is people who fabricate quotes from nameless sources. Has anyone ever heard anyone say that, EVER?

[microgood]

They are distressed over polls that show that at least half of Americans are unwilling to vote for an atheist despite the Constitution's requirement that there be no religious test for public office.

Huh, I thought you could vote for anyone you wanted to.

When it comes to the parks and recreation supervisors, I always vote for the one with a nickname like "Dusty" or "Bud".

[Cicero]

Frankly, atheists writing about religion are tiresome. It's like a blind man writing about painting, or a deaf man writing about music. They haven't the foggiest notion what they're talking about. Who wants to read a long rant by people who don't know what they're talking about?

[processing please hold]

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

[jwalsh07]

Two particularly provocative books, in fact, hit the top of Publishers Weekly's religion bestseller list in December. No. 1, "The God Delusion," by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, and No. 2, "Letter to a Christian Nation," by writer Sam Harris, are no-holds-barred, antireligion polemics that call for the eradication of all manifestations of faith.

Goodbye Groucho, hello Karl.

[oprahstheantichrist]

Ping! (This should be good).

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

Was it last month or this that the lead article of WIRED magazine (computer/x gen culture) was extolling these fools. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles." Roman 1:20-23)

[CANBFORGIVEN]

I will be praying for these authors. Just because they want to deny the power and existence of God doesn't mean he doesn't exist or he isn't sovereign. I deny the number on the weight scale, doesn't mean it isn't telling me the truth.

Lee Strobel is an author who has written many books. He started off as an atheist, but as he tried to disprove the claims of Jesus in the bible, he became a believer. The truth shall set you free. Peace

[HKMk23]

I don't know. It all sounds rather, uh, evangelistic.

I think that's funny. Surreal, in a way.

So, now I've this image of a professorial type in a WHITE suit, strutting across a platform in a staduim, somewhere; big hair out to 'here' and TV cameras and lights; booming voice -- with a slightly southern accent -- "If ya don't believe, ya won't receive, but I will. Somebody say a-MEN!"

How weird.

[Chi-townChief]

If they atheists, why should they care?

[Antoninus]

The kindest thing you can do for an atheist is to pray for him. The fact that it causes them to foam at the mouth is a nice side benefit... ;-)

[Lexinom]

BRING IT ON!!!!

Atheism is easy to dissect: The axioms on which it rests - themselves not subject to the scientific method which is the litmus test of truth for atheism - cannot be accounted for in a Godless universe. Neither can self-awareness, right and wrong, etc.

"The End of Faith" is a misnomer, since atheism itself is a faith - just one that begins from a different presupposition. Isaac Asimov, Gordon Stein, and other celebrated atheists freely admit their inability to prove God's nonexistance.

[JennysCool]

These guys essentially are trying to create money-making "non-belief" religions, much as the operators behind the global warming industry are doing.

[Unam Sanctam]

Our nation was founded on religious tolerance. The Left believes in pure intolerance.

[Dmitry Vukicevich]

Why do the Atheists get their panties in a bunch? They shouldn't be offended by what they don't believe in.