Matt Fradd

Like, I don't want to be, I don't want to, I want to be on the in crowd, you know?

And then the new atheism thing, that was just so pervasive.

I don't know if a lot of younger people appreciate how pervasive that was.

You just felt like an idiot.

Dawkins was telling us outright that we were abusing our children if we taught them about Christianity.

And who the hell wants to be an abuser of children?

And again, when that stuff's in the air, unless you're intelligent,

Like there are people like, I'm sure like yourself or other people I've had on the show, like Dr. Ed Fazer, you know, like who was a philosopher.

So when like the new atheists came in, he's like, he actually said the Dawkins wouldn't know metaphysics from Metamucil.

And he said that during the height of it, you know, and it's just, anyway, it's, it's bizarre, but here's my point.

It feels like the fog of the new atheism has rolled on by and

And I'm looking around the landscape, and I see thoughtful, intelligent people who have what feel like or seem to be coherent, compelling even, arguments against the existence of God and Christianity.

But they're not blowhards.

I don't know.

There probably are blowhards out there, are there?

I don't know.

But the popular ones seem like they're nuanced and thoughtful and careful in a way that the new atheists weren't.

So is it simply that the new atheists overplayed their hand and we all eventually saw it?

Or if not, what is responsible for this resurgence of Christianity in the face of what seems to be a retreating atheism in culture?

Trolling.