A popular social critic is using her new book to take on some claims made by atheists.
Mary Eberstadt, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a contributing writer to First Things magazine, is bringing to light the debate between atheists and Christians in her new book, The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism (Ignatius Press, March 2010), which is a satire on what she calls the "new atheism." She explains that atheists have taken to calling themselves "brights" -- a self-congratulatory moniker suggesting their intellectual superiority to benighted believers. The research fellow feels it is time for Christians to push back."We shouldn't let the new atheists, the belligerent secularists, act as if all the IQ points are on their side or as if all of the fun is on their side," Eberstadt contends. The research fellow feels it is time for Christians to push back, and she explains that the inspiration for her book came from a well-known Christian author. "Like many people, I was influenced by The Screwtape Letters sometime back when I first read them," she remembers. "And I thought, 'What a great thing to combine traditional orthodox Christian apologetics with satire.' The way that C.S. Lewis did that made me really think hard about his points, because he made me laugh...as I was thinking, and that's what I'm trying to do with this book." Eberstadt adds that the danger with new atheists is that they will continue to help with rewriting the role of Judeo-Christianity in history.
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