Blog: August 2014

Leading figures in “The New Atheism” movement include Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and especially Richard Dawkins.  What makes this atheism “new” is its aggressive approach lambasting religion, and its ramped-up, provocative and attention-getting rhetoric (e.g., saying things like “religion poisons everything”).  The best-known book coming from this circle of authors is, no doubt, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006). In 2006 David Robertson, pastor of St. Peter’s Free Church, Dundee, Scotland, began posting ...