Here is a place for all of the reactionary media we find against The God Delusion and its advancing wave.
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Superstar atheists are motivated by anger -- and boohoo victimhood.
The family in which I was raised was, in the matter of religion, typical of postwar England.
The antitheism of the four horsemen is for me a backwards step. It reinforces what I believe is a myth, that an atheist without a bishop to bash is like a fish without water, Julian Baggini writes.
This is Richard Dawkins' special introduction to his lecture at the University of Oklahoma on March 6th, 2009.
A Vatican cardinal said that while the Vatican did not exclude any area of science, it did reject as "absurd" the atheist notion of biologist and author Richard Dawkins and others that evolution proves there is no God.
The Christian Party is paying for buses to carry the slogan: 'There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life.' The Trinitarian Bible Society has chosen a line from Psalm 53: 'The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.'
The New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics
John Podhoretz's review of Religulous, Directed by Larry Charles
It is the thesis of the new nonfiction film Religulous that religion is a "neurological disorder," and that "belief must be destroyed so that mankind might live."
The Anglican bishop of London, Richard Chartres, is to host a study day at St Paul's Cathedral in the British capital to help clergy counter the influence of the scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins
"Greg Koukl responds to typical "refutations" New Atheists make."
A strange new flea book?
In Defense of God: Atheist bestsellers have spurred on protectors of the faith
The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness
Evidence must always be interpreted within the context of interpretive assumptions.
A new breed of missionaries is trying to convert the world. Evangelists of unbelief say religion is a relic left over from the past that stands in the way of human progress. Once the world is rid of religion, immemorial evils such as war and tyranny can be overcome, and humanity will be able to fashion a new life for itself better than any known in history.
In the penultimate chapter of his best-selling book The God Delusion, biologist and world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins presents his view of religious education, which he explains by way of an anecdote.
It's not been a good year for God. Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens's God is Not Great have been riding high in the international bestseller lists, while in the US Sam Harris has addressed his Letter to a Christian Nation and Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell has explored the question of how to explain the irrationality of religious belief. Michel Onfray's In Defence of Atheism has added a distinctively French tone to the assault, and AC Grayling's latest collection of elegant English essays is Against All Gods. It's not surprising that cultural commentators have identified a cultural wave, and given it a label: "The New Atheism".
Richard has a new flea!
Substituting science for religion is like swapping a series of case-notes on senile dementia for King Lear
If Richard Dawkins had his way, a fair number of you and, as it happens, me, would be had up for child abuse. According to him, that's what religious indoctrination of children by their parents is. And if you can sue for the long-term mental damage caused by physical abuse, he argues, why shouldn't you sue for the damage caused by mental child abuse?
LONDON: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the Anglican spiritual leader, criticized popular atheist writers such as Richard Dawkins on Saturday, saying they misunderstand religious beliefs and unfairly portray faith in God as "an eccentric survival strategy."
As I went through youtube I found it funny that three of the counter responses to our work were overtly logically weak, riddled in strawmen, false assertions, and behavior even more childish than the kind I advocate.
On Sunday, I was on the last ever Heaven and Earth show on the BBC which, for nine years has been a gentle dale in the noisy world of modern television – pleasurable, tranquil, receptive, candid and at times profoundly revealing of the place of religion in today's world.
Christopher Hitchens in his book God Is Not Great has confused religion with religious institutions and beliefs with dogma.
After the publication of "The God Delusion" (TGD), the minister of Christ Church in Cambridge, Revd. Steve Midgley, gave a talk responding to the book and posted it up online.
"There is nothing new under the sun," proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes. The rise of the new new atheism confirms this ancient biblical wisdom.
One might easily picture Dawkins as a puritanical preacher, prowling and peering into living rooms to make sure no one is up to sin, such as teaching religious faith to their children. That's "child abuse".
Father Jonathan on Faux News talking about Atheism.... count the logical fallacies, there are plenty, writes David. I'm game we can start with the fact that atheists don't claim a God doesn't exist they claim there is insufficient evidence to believe that one does. There is also the appeal to popularity ninety percent believe so it must be true. Father Jonathan makes other terrible arguments can you identify and refute them?
Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron make fools of themselves.
Certainty sells. But whether it is religious or atheistic, it will always sell you short.
SAN ANTONIO -- Watergate figure Chuck Colson warned a gathering of Southern Baptist pastors Sunday night against what he described as two dire threats: the deadly marriage of Islam and fascism and a new, militant atheism growing in popularity in the West.
A recent spate of books and films from atheists have incorrectly blamed religion for humankind's misery, but the true culprit is much closer to home
God knocking is on the increase but the criticisms levelled at religion by militant atheists are often crude and short-sighted.
The developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy.
Four sermons against The God Delusion.
His nickname is Darwin's Rottweiler and he earned it - and a reputation that spans the globe - with his pugnacious defence of the theory of evolution.
It's a circus of fleas! Now Sam has one more flea out there, but he couldn't remember what it was called. Can any of you find the missing flea?! Please send it to us if you do!
Douglas Wilson has written his own little book: Letter From a Christian Citizen.
Books making the case against God seem to be multiplying, becoming more strident and absolute with each turned page.
If the defenders of evolution wanted to give their creationist adversaries a boost, it's hard to see how they could do better than Richard Dawkins, the famed Oxford scientist who had a bestseller with "The God Delusion." Dawkins, who rose to fame with his lucid expositions of evolution in such books as "The Selfish Gene," has never gone easy on religion. But recently he has ramped up his atheist message, further mixing his defense of evolution with his attack on belief.
A new movement blames God for every social problem from Darfur to child abuse
'The God Solution: A Reply to The God Delusion' by James A. Beverly
I love a good rant of rationalistic fervor. But don't get me wrong. I also appreciate a fervent, well-delivered sermon and have heard my share from quite a range of styles and theological perspectives.
Oh my goodness, they just can't help themselves. John Cornwell signs up to combat the big scary Richard Dawkins with his new book, Darwin's Angel: A Seraphic Response to The God Delusion.
Plagiarism may not be the most holy of pastimes, but an Australian archbishop has been accused of passing off the arguments of Terry Eagleton as his own in a desperate attempt to fend off nonbelievers.