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Here is a place for all of the reactionary media we find against The God Delusion and its advancing wave.

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Document Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining • Charlotte Allen, LA Times • 17th May 2009

Superstar atheists are motivated by anger -- and boohoo victimhood.

Document The New Humanism • Roger Scruton, American Spectator • 22nd Mar 2009

The family in which I was raised was, in the matter of religion, typical of postwar England.

Document The New Atheist Movement is destructive • Julian Baggini • 19th Mar 2009

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.

Video Richard Dawkins at the University of Oklahoma - Introduction • Richard Dawkins • 7th Mar 2009

This is Richard Dawkins' special introduction to his lecture at the University of Oklahoma on March 6th, 2009.

Document Vatican official calls atheist theories 'absurd' • MSNBC • 3rd Mar 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.

Document Anti-atheist bus campaign launched in London • Times Online • 6th Feb 2009

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.'

Document The Joke's on Him: Bill Maher could use a lesson in civility from Michael Moore • John Podhoretz • 16th Oct 2008

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."

Document Cathedral seminar to equip clerics to deal with Dawkins • Bishop Richard Chartres • 23rd Sept 2008

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

Video Common New Atheist Fallacies • Legana Christian Church • 27th Jun 2008

"Greg Koukl responds to typical "refutations" New Atheists make."

Document Fleas on the Horizon: In Defense of God • Publishers Weekly • 3rd Mar 2008

In Defense of God: Atheist bestsellers have spurred on protectors of the faith

Document Add another flea to the list... • RichardDawkins.net • 25th Feb 2008

The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness

Document Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence • Paul Campos, OC Register • 24th Feb 2008

Evidence must always be interpreted within the context of interpretive assumptions.

Document The empty myths peddled by evangelists of unbelief • Sydney Morning Herald • 11th Dec 2007

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.

Document Atheism's Wrong Turn • The New Republic • 2nd Dec 2007

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.

Document Holy communion • Richard Norman, New Humanist • 10th Nov 2007

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".

Document The truth in religion • REVEREND John Polkinghorne, Times Online • 1st Nov 2007

Substituting science for religion is like swapping a series of case-notes on senile dementia for King Lear

Document Don't write off religion - it can be the key to a stable family • Anne Karpf, The Guardian • 26th Oct 2007

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?

Document Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams criticizes popular atheist writers • Associated Press • 13th Oct 2007

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."

Document Youtube hater, I respect your right to free speech. • Brian Sapient • 15th Sept 2007

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.

Document What do these atheists understand of religion? • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown • 3rd Sept 2007

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.

Document The hitch in Hitchens' thinking • Chris Hedges, Kansas City Star • 25th Jul 2007

Christopher Hitchens in his book God Is Not Great has confused religion with religious institutions and beliefs with dogma.

Audio Response to the God Delusion • Revd. Steve Midgley, Christ Church Cambridge • 22nd Jul 2007

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.

Document The New New Atheism • Peter Berkowitz, WSJ • 16th Jul 2007

"There is nothing new under the sun," proclaims the Book of Ecclesiastes. The rise of the new new atheism confirms this ancient biblical wisdom.

Document The fundamentalist delusion • Barney Zwartz • 14th Jul 2007

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".

Video The Stupidity of Fox News is Truly Beyond Belief • Fox News • 26th Jun 2007

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?

Video Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron on Atheism • The O'Reilly Factor • 21st Jun 2007

Bill O'Reilly and Kirk Cameron make fools of themselves.

Document In the know • Mark Vernon, Guardian • 15th Jun 2007

Certainty sells. But whether it is religious or atheistic, it will always sell you short.

Document Baptists Warned About Islam, Atheism • Eric Gorski, Washington Post • 12th Jun 2007

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.

Document God is not responsible for war and suffering • John Heard, The Australian • 6th Jun 2007

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

Document Atheism is pretentious and cowardly • Theo Hobson, Guardian • 6th Jun 2007

God knocking is on the increase but the criticisms levelled at religion by militant atheists are often crude and short-sighted.

Document Why Do Some People Resist Science? • Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Edge • 30th May 2007

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.

Document The God disunion: there is a place for faith in science, insists Winston • James Randerson, Guardian • 24th Apr 2007

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.

Document Flea Circus! • RichardDawkins.net • 18th Apr 2007

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!

Document Sam's Flea! • Douglas Wilson • 17th Apr 2007

Douglas Wilson has written his own little book: Letter From a Christian Citizen.

Document Atheism isn't the final word • Don Feder • 16th Apr 2007

Books making the case against God seem to be multiplying, becoming more strident and absolute with each turned page.

Document Thanks for the Facts. Now Sell Them. • Matthew C. Nisbet and Chris Mooney • 14th Apr 2007

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.

Document Is God poison? • Brian Bethune • 10th Apr 2007

A new movement blames God for every social problem from Darfur to child abuse

Document The Fifth Flea! • James A. Beverly • 28th Mar 2007

'The God Solution: A Reply to The God Delusion' by James A. Beverly

Document Gimme That Old Time Religion (Bashing) • Frederick Clarkson • 24th Mar 2007

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.

Document The Fourth Flea! • John Cornwell • 20th Mar 2007

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.

Document The Archbishop whose words came from same hymnsheet as a Marxist • Jack Malvern, Times Online • 9th Mar 2007

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.

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