Letter from a Christian Citizen

The New Atheist Quartet of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris have been relatively quiet lately. Although they were rather loud and boorish for a brief period during 2007-2008, they have mostly put down their fiery pens and computer keyboards. Or maybe they are simply gearing up for another frontal attack of Christianity—using different tactics—because it can be fairly simply stated that the flurry of 400-page books that the New Atheists released during their two-year onslaught have been deftly answered by one small book by a relatively unknown author from Idaho. When Sam Harris released his second book, Letter to a Christian Nation, it came with a marketing storm that immediately made the book a national phenomenon. Harris' first book, The End of Faith—while better argued and more comprehensive than his second—made it seem as though religion in general was his primary target, however Letter made it clear that Christianity was his real objection. Just as Phil Zuckerman recently did in his book, Society Without God, Harris conveniently accepts the prevailing logic that America IS a Christian nation (which atheists usually dismiss with fervor) in order to use it against her. Just when it seemed as though Harris' atheistic propaganda was going to steal the show, author Douglas Wilson quietly submitted his 100-page manuscript to the publisher. The resulting book, Letter from a Christian Citizen: A Response to Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, made mincemeat of the shallow and logically fallacious arguments employed by Harris in his tirade. Wilson calmly and cleverly reveals the shaky foundation of Harris' humanism, and destroys forever the atheistic claim to moral superiority. Finish reading this review here: http://christianreader.typepad.com/christian_reader/2009/03/answering-fools.html