The New Atheism is dead, or so maverick writer Freddie DeBoer argues in his recent provocative Substack essay. But that doesn’t mean the New Atheists lost. On the contrary, he thinks they won by losing. DeBoer explains: Every day religion recedes a little bit more into the background as ordinary people, religious or not, abstract religious meaning in their lives to the point where it’s hard to know how you would begin to define why the distinction between believer and nonbeliever actually matters. DeBoer argues that this receding has, ironically, been hastened by the replacement of New Atheists with voices who are more friendly towards traditional theists, like social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Unlike Dawkins or Hitchens, Haidt isn’t out to Read More ›
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