New what?
Richard Dawkins finds the title ‘New Atheist’ laughable, and so do I. What the hell is a New Atheist? Am I a New Atheist or an Old Atheist? Are New Atheists trendier, better looking or richer? According to the Dilbert Blog, New Atheists are now also New Gays. This is getting absurd. Dawkins compared the plight of atheists in the US to that of gays thirty or so years ago, so giving birth to another crazy nickname. Atheists are accused by the religious of being religious themselves (the line ‘you believe there is no god’, so oft-repeated, suggests that Atheism is itself a faith position), so all in all, I might be part of some weird new religion called the New Gays. I don’t want to be a New anything. There’s a time limit on being New unless you’re watching the News, and look how New Labour turned out.
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
“New” = something someone’s dreamt up in the last 12 months because they’re ignorant of history, and hadn’t realised it’s been done before.
Have you bought the God Delusion? I’m about 50 pages in as I have to re-read every paragraph twice to understand it!
I have - have had to do that a fair bit to get the full thrust of some of the more ‘involved’ arguments, certainly!