This is the New Atheism? Seriously?

Today I was musing over John W. Loftus’s blogsite.  Apparently he was a believer and now he considers himself a ‘known’ atheist, a little bit under the gravitas of Dawkins and Hitchens.  Moving on, he recently claimed in an article concerning the ban of religious Christmas songs in schools during a court order: “they [Christians] want to ignorantly claim that atheism is a religion”.  Now, he doesn’t particularly state where this claim was made or why it’s ignorant, but he isn’t the most consistent atheist I’ve read, perhaps that is why he is only ‘known’ and not ‘popular’.  So I challenge him to describe what is so ignorant about such a claim?  ‘Mr.’ Loftus – I noticed you didn’t bother with the PhD – could you please explain the ignorance?  I’ll even take any of your fellow disciples’ – who cling to your blog like a wet rag – responses.  O, furthermore this guy also has the stones to suggest that William Lane Craig is afraid of debating him; nothing like egomaniacal atheist to start your morning right.

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Tags: Atheism, Dawkins, John W. Loftus, New Atheism, Theism, William Lane Craig