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Even though it's taking place right before our eyes, I still find it somewhat hard to believe. I hardly expected to witness such a sudden rise of militant atheism that boldly denounces both Bible and believer alike.
Granted, it's existed behind closed doors in some circles for generations, but the hostility with which it has now entered the public arena in the United States is startling. I never expected to see belief in the teachings of the Bible condemned as a threat to society, civilization and sanity, but now it's happening.
This attitude is exemplified by Oxford University professor Richard Dawkins, staunch defender of atheism and evolution. How does he view those who don't agree with him? "It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)," he wrote in a 1989 New York Times book review.
What about the Bible? "To be fair," he writes, "much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird . . . a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents . . . that religious zealots hold up to us as the inerrant source of our morals and rules for living" (The God Delusion, 2006, p. 237).
Professor Dawkins and his colleagues are in the vanguard of efforts not just to attack God and the Bible, but to literally transform society. He and others have gone so far as to argue that parents should be banned from teaching religious beliefs to their children, since to do so amounts to child abuse.
Regrettably, some are heeding these evangelists of atheism. Just this week I heard from one who, after viewing our free booklet Creation or Evolution: Does It Really Matter What You Believe?, felt compelled to write the following:
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