Why, then, are the enlightened so conspicuously up in arms these days, reiterating every possible argument against the existence of God? Why are they indulging in books — Daniel Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell,” Sam Harris’s “Letter to a Christian Nation,” and Richard Dawkins’s “God Delusion” — in which authors lampoon religion or rail against the devout under the banner of a crusading atheism? [...] the popularity of the current counterattack on religion cloaks a renewed and intense anxiety within secular society that it is not the story of religion but rather the story of the Enlightenment that may be more illusory than real.
I've got thoughts on this that I might post later, when I've had another cup of coffee. Of course, there's always this.
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The cover story in the Nov. issue of Wired interviews all three of these guys. Not sure I see the Enlightenment angst coming to the fore, but I haven't read it all that closely.
It is interesting that one basis for their plea to forsake religion has to do with religious violence, when I would maintain that it is only through faith that we will be able to counteract and redeem such violence... but then I'm probably preaching to the choir here.
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