[This post was originally published on The Secular Outpost on October 24, 2011. It was republished here on November 8, 2021 with the date manually adjusted to reflect its original publication date.]
(This is another one for the "not new, but new for me" category.)
Julian Baggini, author of the excellent book, Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, explains that the four horseman of the new atheism is a "backwards step. It reinforces what I believe is a myth, that an atheist without a bishop to bash is like a fish without water."
