Here is my 'Conservative Classic' column on David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions
David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The
Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable
Enemies was published in 2009 as a direct
response to the phenomenon of militant atheism
that, at the time, caught the imagination of the book-
buying public in the Anglosphere. Prominent amongst
these ‘fashionable enemies’ were the so-called ‘Four
Horsemen of New Atheism’: Daniel Dennett, Richard
Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. All of
these atheist fundamentalists were, in their previous
intellectual endeavours, either brilliant or at least
notable figures. Experts on religion, alas, they never
were, and Hart relishes the opportunity to expose their shortcomings.