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Answering the Attack: The Incoherence of Atheism

One of the many things I don’t understand about atheists is their curious insistence on saying the religion is a purely natural phenomenon, coupled with their great outrage at religion.

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by Mark Shea, Register correspondent Tuesday, Jan 30, 2007 8:00 AM Comment

One of the many things I don’t understand about atheists is their curious insistence on saying the religion is a purely natural phenomenon, coupled with their great outrage at religion.

It gets odder the longer you contemplate it.

On the one hand, God does not exist. On the other hand, prodigious amounts of fury are spent railing at Someone who is not there.

The way atheists see it,...

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