Good New Book on Different Types of Atheism

[osewalrus]

This interview with John Gray, author of "7 Types of Atheism," captures many of the objections I've had over the years to the "New Atheism" of folks like Dawkins and Hitchins. i.e., That they are bascially working off of Frasier's "Golden Bough" and that they are focused on a fairly narrow set of religious pratices and practitioners without considering the broad scope of religion in human history.

Gray, I note, is an atheist himself and philosopher. His book and this interview are not a critique of atheism per se. But he sets his atheism in the overall framework of philosophy and human belief, acknowledging that all human belief must contain certain unprovable elements and share certain traits of storification and narrative as fundamental to the human condition. I will need to get this book.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/30/17936564/new-atheism-religion-science-god-john-gray