DREADPUBLISHING: John Heard In 'The Australian' On Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens & Atheist Arguments

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT's article linked by The Huffington Post.

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT's article is one of the most popular online this month.#

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT's article reprinted and discussed on 'the official Richard Dawkins website'. A disappointingly silly/typical response:

"Antisemiticism[sic] was church doctrine and the Genocide[sic] was the fulfillment of christian[sic] preaching. And most of the Nazi army was also christian[sic]."

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT's article is the most popular online today.

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT's article added to the Your Say section of The Australian website. Add your feedback.

[UPDATE] Download the podcast of DREADNOUGHT's most recent radio interview.

[UPDATE] From The Australian on Monday: Tim Wilson advocates hope over boomer cynicism and Tom Switzer writes on conservatism, fairness and true debate.

:: Update ::

DREADNOUGHT's op-ed on the recent spate of atheist or anti-theist books appears in The Australian newspaper today. The Australian is Australia's only national daily.

:: Is Man the Measure of All Things?* ::

Ironically, Richard Dawkins' brand of radical Darwinism appears to be just a scientifically couched, modern iteration of an older, Pagan deification of reason/progress. Check out the logos (not Logos) on his site. The Hitch, on the other hand, is usually solid and often hilarious - but this most recent book, and his other writings on Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, are miserable. They seem infected by a groggy pessimism that insists on putting miracles, faith and other signs of wonder beyond some arbitary pale.^ I've written on Sam Harris before. Finally, some excitable people call Michel Onfray 'the 21st Century's Nietzsche'. What was that about apes?

:: No ::

Give me the cool, rational splendour of Aquinas, the throbbing eros tranformed in St John of the Cross or the empathy, verve and precision of Edith Stein's phenomenology and G.E.M. Anscombe's mighty work over these dry-hearted nihilists anyday.

:: The Upshot ::

Buy the paper. Also, take a look at the atheists' books, if only to get a glimpse of the flimsy arguments and bald ignorance that sometimes parade as secular wisdom.

:: Resources ::

- Michael Novak on the twilight of secularism?

* (No. Cf - inter alia - Protagoras' maxim and Sophocles' Antigone - especially "Wonders are many..." - and the rest of his Oedipus cycle).

^ (Memories of a silly teacher are not enough to explain the curiously despairing tone Hitchens assumes in his writings on faith. Here's to a late conversion then, sudden sobriety and an even more remarkable future book from Hitchens on why he is now a Waugh-style Catholic).

# (It rose to fourth overall with 189 comments by lunchtime. News Ltd then closed comments. By comparison, the number one article on climate change attracted 337 comments over four days).