Vox Day--who has his own book "The Irrational Atheist" coming out soon--has a must-read interview with Dinesh D'Souza on the release of D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity. A sample:
When you point out that atheist leaders have killed several orders of magnitude more human beings than Christian leaders, the usual rebuttal is that the atheists didn't commit their murders "in the name of atheism". What is your response to that?
This is Richard Dawkins and it clearly shows what happens when you let a biologist out of the lab. It shows a gross ignorance of history. Communism was an explicitly atheist ideology. Marx was very eager to establish a new Man and a new society liberated from the shackles of traditional religion and traditional morality. Marx called religion "the opiate of the people" and he very much wanted to see religion removed from the face of the Earth, and he predicted it would be in the Communist utopia. Every Communist regime targeted religion, closed the churches, persecuted the priests, harassed the believers. This was no accident. So, for Dawkins to say that this wasn't being done in the name of atheism just defies rational belief. It's hard for me to believe an intelligent individual would even try to say that.
Vox also provides a link to the recent D'Souza-Hitchens Debate, where by most reliable accounts (and JB Doubtless), D'Souza batted the aggressive atheist around like a cat toying with a helpless mouse. Hitchens is no slouch when it comes to verbal sparring, but it sounds like he met his match with D'Souza's well-reasoned arguments.
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