3340 Today's atheists lack charm

In today's Wall Street Journal there was an editorial that had a very familiar ring. Sam Schulman says today's atheists are no match for their forebearers like George Eliot, Carlyle, Hardy, Darwin, H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. They have no arguments you didn't hear in college and lack charm. He says atheists think religious people like me are stupid, full of superstitions, unsafe for children, full of fables and indefensible. Mr. Schulman goes on to say atheists don't focus on Islamic extremists who openly spew hate and kill apostates. It's people who attend church and actually believe something that upset them. He concludes that atheists are shallow, peevish, unsympathetic whiners who are rigid and preachy. Amen to that.

Now I know what the problem was with an editorial I read in the Upper Arlington News by Richard Ades this week. It was so garbled and poorly written including everything from the 9/11 attack to Merry Christmas attacks that I was hard pressed to make sense of it. But Sam Schulman has shed some light on it. Mr. Ades has been reading Richard Dawkins and watching too much PBS.

I sent a letter to the SNP/UA News. Let's see if they'll publish criticism of one of their own.