The early 21st century has seen secularism and atheism promoted
throughout the Western world with an ever-increasing vigor and militancy
This has led to the emergence of the “new atheists,”
notable members of which include best-selling authors such as Sam Harris
Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens.
The contention of the new atheists is, obviously, that there is no God
Adherents to the philosophy of new atheism believe that blind
natural forces are responsible for all of reality that we perceive
The new atheists do not restrict themselves to a passive disbelief
Rather, they are actively engaged in admonishing others to follow suit
to declare their non-belief in God
and to take the necessary steps to rid the world of religious belief and practice
As outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins puts it in The God Delusion
“I do everything in my power to warn people against faith itself.”
An ironic feature of the new atheism is
its strong faith in the inferiority of having faith
The new atheists erroneously redefine "faith" as an
"irrational belief in the absence of evidence."
This misrepresentation of the nature of faith is absurd
for faith is not essentially a strong belief in something
but rather the ground of Christian faith i
believing in someone—God. A.W. Tozer said
“Faith rests upon the character of God
not upon the demonstration of laboratory or logic
When one has faith in the character of a person
e.g. a mother or an aircraft pilot
one no longer needs to be skeptical or require strong evidenc
in respect to any service that he or she renders.