From The Irish Times-
John Gray
is a self-described atheist who thinks that prominent advocates of
atheism have made non-belief seem intolerant, uninspiring and dull. At
the end of the first chapter of his new book, Seven Types of Atheism,
he concludes that “the organised atheism of the present century is
mostly a media phenomenon and best appreciated as a type of
entertainment”.
He laughs when I remind him of
this sick burn. “I wrote the book partly as a riposte to that kind of
atheism,” he says. “There’s not much new in [new atheism] and what is in
it is a tired recycled version of forms of atheism that were presented
more interestingly in the 19th century. In the so-called new atheism
people are [presented with] a binary option between atheism, as if there
was only one kind, and religion, as if there was only one kind of
religion. [It’s] historically illiterate.
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