RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
December 19, 2015 at 1:36 pm
(October 31, 2015 at 11:54 pm)Delicate Wrote: Article: The New Philistinism
The New Atheist writers are supremely self-confident in their ability to dispatch opponents with a sarcastic quip or two. And they show no evidence whatsoever of knowing what they are talking about.
Great article. Worth reading to get an idea of what a joke so many atheist clergy are.
The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart as well as The Last Superstition by the same author of the article you linked to, a former atheist himself, show just how intellectually bankrupt atheism is. The former even prompted an atheist reviewer to title his review “The one theology book all atheists really should read.” In comparison, books by atheist authors, and I've read several, are extremely puerile and ill-informed—even those written by former evangelists. Virtually every argument posed in this forum and 99.9999% of of those posed by atheist authors are category errors.
“Where's the evidence?” means “What empirical empirical evidence do you have?” If atheists knew just how silly a question that is, they'd hide their faces in shame. Asking for physical evidence of a universal principle or Spirit is illogical and plainly the result of that category error. Whether it's an attempt at parody like the FSM or something relatively more intelligent like comparing God to a microscopic leprechaun, it's the same thing. People who pose those kinds of arguments are really just putting their ignorance on display. And they do so proudly because they imagine it to be clever and more intelligent than theism.
