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[quote=[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] John Omicinski ][/font]

In his latest book, The Twilight of Atheism, Alister McGrath contends that atheism is a spent force, discredited by the murderous circuses staged by its ringmasters in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

Eh, Hitler was Catholic.

Most of all the author is confusing faith with inner workings of
huge empires such as Nazi Germany and the Sovie Union.

Most of the population of these two countries were religious people,
and there's no telling if the leadership was or wasn't religious,
it were power-hungry leaders like all.

and, not least of all, a victim of its own elitism, arrogance, and aimlessness. He tells one story of attending a recent, ragtag national convention of about 250 atheists in Boston, where his seatmate spent much time blacking over the word “God” on U.S. currency—an act as effectual as throwing rocks into the sea and hoping to fill it.

So, the author's case of hating Atheism is based on his experience
with knowing a neurotic individual.

McGrath doesn’t seem to realize how devastating an insight he has stumbled upon here, a concrete example of the hatefulness and self-righteousness that gave us the gulags and Auschwitz.

The Gulags existed BEFORE there was a Soviet Union. During the time
of the Orthodox Christian monarchy.

Auschwitz, if you believe in the holocaust, was made in an empire
run by a known Catholic, where most of the population was either
Catholic or Protestant.

Thank goodness these sorry sons and daughters of Marx, Freud, Lenin, Voltaire, Huxley, Darwin, and Nietzsche—names that once commanded armies of devout intellectuals convinced of their rightness and righteousness—have arrived at a blind canyon, at the other end of an arc launched at the Bastille and the guillotine and ending at a shabby Logan Airport meeting.

Actually, self-righteousness is a human trait. Appears in ALL people in all times. It's something that had it's role in the great massacres committed by the Catholic inquisition, Muslims, and many other religious sods.

Even the scribbling, anti-God protester fits into McGrath’s theory as to why atheism rose—in his view—with the French Revolution of 1789 and fell exactly two centuries later when the Berlin Wall was pushed over in 1989.

It fell? Really?


I'll continue tearing apart this sorry article a bit later.
Too bad that the PC moron who wrote isn't a member here.