Eric Reitan

The other day, Terry Sanderson—president of the United Kingdom’s National Secular Society—published a short, scathing indictment of theology in The Guardian, a piece titled “

Are believers in God crazy? Are atheists? Philosopher Eric Reitan explains why he finds the ideas of the Dawkins-Hitchens crowd wanting and why readers—atheist or theist—who want to cheer and pump their fists as “their guy” strikes back against the opponent should read something else.

Coming from Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, this stunt is likely to provide support for those who believe that atheists and secularists are just out to destroy a church they believe to be evil.