Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus

[Angrboda]

Gosh. So, despite being an atheist, I'm a "Jesus freak shithead"? How exactly does that work?

Interesting. I thought it was only the religionists who used the term "New atheist" so they can implicitly suggest that it's a religious movement.

Maybe you can explain to me what the term actually means because I have no idea how atheism can be considered new.

There was something of a wave of renewal in atheism in the past century, led by critical works published by figures such as Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris (aka "The Four Horsemen" of the New Atheism). Those authors, their works, and that movement are generally described as the New Atheists. Wikipedia suggests that, "This modern-day atheism is advanced by a group of thinkers and writers who advocate the view that superstition, religion and irrationalism should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever their influence arises in government, education, and politics." I don't know how much that is true, but in general, New Atheism is epitomized by the thinking of that wave of new, critical atheist authors, and those who follow them.