A recent World Net Daily article bemoans
"The Rise of Atheist America."In earlier eras, atheists were on the fringes of society, mistrusted by the mainstream. Those few who dared to publicly push their beliefs on society, like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, were widely regarded as malevolent kooks. But today, Hitchens' No. 1 New York Times bestseller, which has dominated the nonfiction charts for months, boldly condemns religion – including Christianity – as "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children."
The article goes on to raise a number of points (I won't quite call them interesting, or apply any adjective, for that matter), but at
no point does it actually refute any of the allegations references in the above quote.
I have to agree with
Skepchick's idea to make this into a poster:
Seriously, all this "America is a Christian nation" stuff is getting tiresome. I am still resolute in
my conviction that a religion is only as worthwhile as its worst practitioner, and most religions in existence today therefore have a lot to answer for.
