For God’s Sake

Reg Naulty is engaged by a new book on theism and atheism

It is surprising what a male enterprise the current debate between theism and atheism is. The atheists, Jack Smart, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, AC Grayling, attract as opponents male heavyweights like John Haldane, Antony Flew, David Bentley Hart, and Deepak Chopra. As in other male preserves, the debate takes on a distantly grim aspect, so that it resembles an intellectual version of the gunfight at the ‘OK Corral’.

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