Atheist delusions
by David Bentley Hart · first published 2009
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Currently it is fashionable to be devoutly undevout. Religion's most passionate antagonists -- Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others -- have publishers competing eagerly to market their various denunciations of religion, monotheism, Christianity, and Roman Catholicism. But contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon profound conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history or even outright historical ignorance: so contends David Bentley Hart in this bold correction of the distortions. One of the most brilliant scholars of
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…that shames to ground sentences like this. Also the idea that modernity is somehow superior to previous ages in regard to tolerance and reason. Nothing further from the truth. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Delusions-Christian-Revolution...
on “The second-largest religion in each state” ↗I recommend "Atheist Delusions" by David Bentley Hart for reasons that your materialist beliefs might not be so well founded.
on “His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent” ↗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…
on “Hitchens Was Wrong” ↗…David Bentley Hart addresses the fallacies of materialist arguments: https://www.amazon.com/Experience-God-Being-Consciousness-Bl... I haven't read this one, but seems on point: https://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Delusions-Christian-Revolutio... To be clear, Hart's own religious views seem pretty eclectic, and he is much less dogmatically Christian than blurbs and marketing of his books suggest.
on “Young people are flocking to astrology” ↗