Purpose-Dirven Atheism

Frank Schaeffer writes an article in Religion Dispatches about the new anti-religion movement forwarded by self-avowed atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. The piece poses the question as to what extent these positions are just as fundamentalistic as the religious views they critique. Schaeffer suggests that Dawkins, Harris, etc. are indeed extremist and radical versions of fundamentalism, only from the opposite side of the spectrum from that of the religious type.

Read the entire article here.

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