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Tabletalk Magazine, August 2008: The New Atheism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The August 2008 issue of Tabletalk magazine examines some of the basic precepts of the “new” atheism, encouraging readers with succinct answers to certain criticisms and exhorting them to be prepared to face these challenges as they are disseminated at home and abroad.

Is the Christian faith intellectual nonsense? Are Christians deluded? “If God exists and takes an interest in the affairs of human beings, his will is not inscrutable,” writes Sam Harris about the 2004 tsunami in Letter to a Christian Nation. “The only thing inscrutable here is that so many otherwise rational men and women can deny the unmitigated horror of these events and think this is the height of moral wisdom” (p. 48). In his article “God’s Dupes,” Harris argues, “Everything of value that people
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