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Evangelization and the new atheism

Siniscalchi, Glenn B.
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Siniscalchi, Glenn B.
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Christianity
violence
atheism
Evangelization
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Political ethics
Peace ethics
Religious ethics
Comparative religion and interreligious dialogue
Dogmatics
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Protestant Ethics
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"One of the main arguments in the recent explosion of best-selling books in defense of atheism is that Christianity is directly responsible for causing its adherents to become violent in the name of their faith. As Steven Pinker writes, the Judeo-Christian God once commanded his people to “massacre Midianites, stone prostitutes, execute homosexuals, slay heretics and infidels, throw Protestants out of windows, withhold medicine from dying children, and crash airplanes into skyscrapers.”2 Richard Dawkins, a vociferous critic of Christian theism, writes: “…the human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations. And the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today”"
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2009
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