11.06.09
Just in: Dawkins the jerry seinfeld of nonbelievers
Did I say that — Ask to find the answer
Written by Joe Pisani
Friday, 06 November 2009 06:51
At the entrance to the book store, larger than life, was a display for a new book by celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins — the Jerry Seinfeld of nonbelievers and author of such controversial works as “The God Delusion.”
You can’t buy a caramel macchiato these days without bumping into an atheist, trying to convert you to the cause of Godlessness. “The time for polite debate is over,” an Associated Press story proclaimed. “Militant atheist writers are making an all-out assault on religious faith,” publishing books like “Good Without God” and “God Is Not Great.”
The worldwide atheists’ convention is next year and to whip up the hoopla, they’ve launched ad campaigns from Great Britain to West Virginia, from Texas to Indiana and most recently Manhattan subway stations, where posters coyly ask, “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?”
Paid for with an anonymous donation of $25,000, the campaign was developed by a collection of atheistic groups called the Big Apple Coalition of Reason.
To my feeble thinking — and I have nowhere near the brain power of Dawkins, which is why I still believe in God — the New York subway system probably should be submitted as one of the proofs there is a God, along with Thomas Aquinas’ other five.