In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual.
Scared or angry, take your pick. Far be it from us to put words in their mouths: the New Atheists are saying it themselves.The former opinion comes from the writer of this piece in The Guardian, the latter from an atheist in its comments section. What scares (or angers) the Champions of Unbelief is the dawning recognition that while their anti-faith was briefly trendy in the middle of this century’s first decade, it is not quite as intuitive as they thought and it doesn’t seem to be catching on quite the way they’d like. In fact, things seem to be trending the other way.