{"id":4278,"date":"2006-12-03T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:22:00","slug":"militant_atheis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"Militant atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on the weblog althouse, right here <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/those-contemptuous-atheists-why-wont.html\">Althouse: Those contemptuous atheists&#8230; why won&#8217;t they be kind?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ann Althouse writes about Nicholas Kristoff&#8217;s NY Times column this morning, quoting Kristoff:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>[There is] an increasingly assertive, often obnoxious atheist offensive led in part by [Richard] Dawkins \u2014 the Oxford scientist who is author of the new best seller \u201cThe God Delusion.\u201d It\u2019s a militant, in-your-face brand of atheism that he and others are proselytizing for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[T]he tone of this Charge of the Atheist Brigade is &#8230; contemptuous and even &#8230; a bit fundamentalist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ann Althouse&#8217;s commentary (I presume she&#8217;s an agnostic) is interesting, as are many of the comments left by readers (including <del>one<\/del> two from me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on the weblog althouse, right here Althouse: Those contemptuous atheists&#8230; why won&#8217;t they be kind? Ann Althouse writes about Nicholas Kristoff&#8217;s NY Times column this morning, quoting Kristoff: [There is] an increasingly assertive, often obnoxious atheist offensive led in part by [Richard] Dawkins \u2014 the Oxford scientist who is author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}