Wired News: Battle of the New Atheism

0atwong • 26th Oct 2006 • Conversation Pieces

Wired News: Battle of the New Atheism
This autumn, Harris has a new book out, Letter to a Christian Nation. In it, he demonstrates the behavior he believes atheists should adopt when talking with Christians. “Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you,” he writes, addressing his imaginary opponent, “dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well — by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.”