Why the New Atheists are Shallow

This one might be a bit of a brain stretcher, but it is definitely worth reading if you have any interest in what the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens are saying - David Hart doing a thorough demolition job of the intellectual vapidness of so much of this school of thought. Todays atheists - he argues - are just not atheist enough.

I love this quote:

The principal source of my melancholy, however, is my firm conviction that today’s most obstreperous infidels lack the courage, moral intelligence, and thoughtfulness of their forefathers in faithlessness. What I find chiefly offensive about them is not that they are skeptics or atheists; rather, it is that they are not skeptics at all and have purchased their atheism cheaply, with the sort of boorish arrogance that might make a man believe himself a great strategist because his tanks overwhelmed a town of unarmed peasants, or a great lover because he can afford the price of admission to a brothel. So long as one can choose one’s conquests in advance, taking always the paths of least resistance, one can always imagine oneself a Napoleon or a Casanova (and even better: the one without a Waterloo, the other without the clap).

HT: Justin Taylor