More often they are quietly pragmatic in their methods, morally slippery in their lifestyle, and cool rather than openly resistant toward any notion of biblical authority. Yes, there are those who are more explicit and unashamed in their denial of the faith. These are the “scoffers,” the “mockers,” seen most recently in the brazen atheism of Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion; and Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The psalmist is not suggesting that
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