What is driving this new and militant group of public apologists for Atheism?
I think there are three things: (a) The rise of militant Islamic fundamentalism, the West’s reaction to it, and the increasing violence and suffering that has resulted. (b) The growth of “Creationism” (the young earth view) within Christian fundamentalism. (c) The decline in Christianity in the West. They smell the blood in the water! Let me develop these three and then think about how we should respond. (1) The bloody conflicts around the world and international terrorism have in most cases a religious factor. The response of the west has been described as a new crusade and is seen as such by many in the Muslim world. People like Christopher Hitchens see militant Islam in eg: its Iranian revolutionary guise or the Taliban in Afghanistan as the new religious fascism of the 21st C. They see it as the enemy of all we have achieved through the European enlightenment over the last 300 years. The running sore of the Israel / Palestinian conflict is deeply embedded in religious issues. The t
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