Illogical Atheism: A Comprehensive Response to the Contemporary Freethinker

“To say that atheism is believed would be an insult to the very notion, for even the most indiscriminate forms of fideism at least begin with the logical possibility of truth. Hopefully in the following discourse, the reader will come to appreciate that the essential philosophies of mere atheism, taken collectively, render it utterly untenable, and necessarily false…” The turn of the millennium was marked, among many other unpleasant things, by the bane of religious extremism. With no shortage of disputes and diatribes on the subject of Militant Islam, however, it might surprise the reader to find out that Bo Jinn’s primary concern is with a particular religious movement which purports not to be a religion at all. In the aftermath of 9/11, a seedbed thriving with religious hostility and disillusioned young souls has seen the rise of a new breed of militant secularism, spearheaded by the so-called “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism”. After the publication of the four New Atheist manifestos, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and the late Christopher Hitchens have facilitated the expansion of the New Atheist sphere of influence with a number of bestselling books, all devoted to proclaiming the same notorious message Friedrich Nietzsche most famously proclaimed over a century ago: GOD IS DEAD And if he is not, he should be. Whilst the atheistic creeds, constantly thrown in the faces of the religious – REASON SCIENCE FREEDOM – may seem noble enough, Jinn submits that the reality of modern atheism runs in quite the opposite direction, and with a growing number of disciples subscribing to the New Atheist agenda, the history of radical atheism coupled with the paradoxical tensions at its philosophical roots render it, in Jinn’s view, not only false but very dangerous indeed …