By Jonah Goldberg
It’s sort of like asking Don Rickles to run your customer-service desk. Christopher Hitchens was a friend, but when he talked about religion, he could be — to use a technical term — a Grade-A Schmuck.
Likewise, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the other champions of a soulless, antiseptic world have all the charm of a toothache when they lecture people to kick the habit of the opiate of the masses.
And then there are their shock troops.
When pastor Rick Warren’s depressed son committed suicide recently, an army of the unfaithful took to Twitter to assure the grief-stricken father that there was no heaven, God was a myth, and his son was gone forever.
When USA Today wrote about the mind-bogglingly hateful attacks, one commenter on that article counseled that Warren should “abandon primitive superstitions and accept the universe for what it is — a place that is utterly indifferent to us.”
One reason the atheistic horde has grown so aggressive and nasty is that they feel the wind at their backs.
The pews are emptying and science is declaring, more and more loudly, that it has Figured Everything Out.
Another reason is that conservatives, mostly conservative Christians, have been pretty much the only ones fighting back.
Perhaps just in time, some allies seem to be walking onto the field.
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Read more: www.nationalreview.com
And then there are their shock troops.
When pastor Rick Warren’s depressed son committed suicide recently, an army of the unfaithful took to Twitter to assure the grief-stricken father that there was no heaven, God was a myth, and his son was gone forever.
When USA Today wrote about the mind-bogglingly hateful attacks, one commenter on that article counseled that Warren should “abandon primitive superstitions and accept the universe for what it is — a place that is utterly indifferent to us.”
One reason the atheistic horde has grown so aggressive and nasty is that they feel the wind at their backs.
The pews are emptying and science is declaring, more and more loudly, that it has Figured Everything Out.
Another reason is that conservatives, mostly conservative Christians, have been pretty much the only ones fighting back.
Perhaps just in time, some allies seem to be walking onto the field.
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Read more: www.nationalreview.com
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