So-called New Atheists say that religion is an irrationally held proto-scientific cosmological hypothesis, a primitive theory, supplemented by an equally irrational moral code, that led to the worst evil in the history of the human kind, so that religion itself should be completely eradicated—rational arguments and scientific evidence being the apt instruments to this end. In The Meaning of Belief, Tim Crane rejects all these ideas from an atheist’s point of view.
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