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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I didn’t want this to be a vicious attack on atheism but a critique on where neo-atheism is headed without demonizing anyone personally. I do have some atheist and agnostic friends who are polite and respectful that I can get along with. I don’t begrudge anyone for what they believe, it’s more the attitude people have towards others they disagree with that can turn into a problem (and believe me, I’ve made almost as many enemies out of Young Earth Creationist Christians).

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I appreciate C. S. Lewis' views about Christianity. He once was an atheist but changed his mind when faced with proof he could not ignore. Some of that is expressed here:

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.