Not exact matches
His belief that all theological argument is (quite literally) «
away with the fairies», and his optimism about a harmonious world where religion has withered
away, are the doctrines of new
atheism.
But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them
away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know
with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of
atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).
Contrary to popular belief, doing
away with government endorsement of a particular religion is not the same thing as seeking government endorsement of
atheism.
It doesn't shy
away from
atheism but explains it sympathetically,
with love, not spite.
In an alliance
with Christian conservatives against the
atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat
away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared
with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along
with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.