Atheists Aren't So Bad After All

Some evangelicals think we must sue for peace with rampaging New Atheists, but their extremism may already have peaked.

Five years ago I debated Christopher Hitchens and was amazed at his insistent defense of an untenable position: "Religion poisons everything." Now Pantheon, a left-wing publisher, has come out with Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists (2012), which notes, "The error of modern atheism has been to overlook how many aspects of the faiths remain relevant even after their central tenets have been dismissed."

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