The New Atheists are coming for your children (I didn’t say it, they did)

Here’s a sympathetic article by Gary Wolf at wired.com about the New Atheists, who “condemn not just belief in God but respect for belief in God. Religion is not only wrong; it’s evil.” Wolf interviews three leading New Atheists including Richard Dawkins. Here’s an excerpt:

When atheists finally begin to gain some power, what then? Here is where Dawkins’ analogy breaks down. Gay politics is strictly civil rights: Live and let live. But the atheist movement, by his lights, has no choice but to aggressively spread the good news. Evangelism is a moral imperative. Dawkins does not merely disagree with religious myths. He disagrees with tolerating them, with cooperating in their colonization of the brains of innocent tykes.

“How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents?” Dawkins asks. “It’s one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children? Is there something to be said for society stepping in? What about bringing up children to believe manifest falsehoods?”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 04, 2007 09:11 AM | Send