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But building monuments to atheism from sea to shining sea is not really their goal.
It's 9/11, more than anything else, that divides the old atheism from the new.
Nonetheless, it's clear that the purpose of this book is to rescue atheism from the currently fashionable atheists.
At some point in the 80s I published an essay-length history of American atheism that unearthed the stream of working-class atheism from which I was descended.
Despite the novelty of the "new atheist" label, disentangling new atheism from the wider non-religious population is no easy task.
Herman Melville described this colour as the "dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless all-color of atheism from which we shrink".
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As an atheist I spend a lot of time defending atheism, not from its disbelief, but from others preconceived notions of what being an atheist means.
Theoretically, agnosticism is very different from atheism, for atheists and theists share the conviction that knowledge about such matters is attainable – and, indeed, that they have attained it while their opponents have failed to do so.
Secularism needs to be disarticulated from atheism for a variety of reasons.
What's more, in some quarters, atheism, far from being rare, is the norm -- among scientists, for example, particularly high-level scientists who populate academia.
The novelty of New Atheism comes from its contrast with an older atheism, associated throughout the 19th and 20th centuries with the left in general and socialism in particular.
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