An Answer to the 'New Atheism'

Name: An Answer to the 'New Atheism'
Description: t's been called "the new atheism."

01-27-2012

t's been called "the new atheism."

It's a new movement against faith and it's led by some best selling authors who believe God is a problem.

Polls indicate that atheists make up just 3 percent of the population in the U.S. but have one of the highest disapproval ratings.

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But in the last few years, books about atheism have been very influential. Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell, Samual Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation and Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything were all best sellers.

Now, former Time magazine correspondent David Aikman, has written a response to the atheist books called The Delusion of Disbelief, Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.