I just read “The Loser Letters” by Mary Eberstadt and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I spoke with the author on Saturday and wrote up a review at the National Catholic Register:
The new atheists are on the march. They’re in bookstores. They’re on television. They’re everywhere. But nowhere is their effect being felt more than on college campuses and by young people. So invasive is the new atheist movement that in many ways their outlook has become the default mainstream culture.
For too long Christians have been a punch line for militant secularists. It’s time somebody punched back. And Mary Eberstadt’s new book “The Loser Letters” is an unexpected roundhouse to the new atheist movement. I read it last week and urge you to pick it up. (You can click on Amazon.com.)
“Christians are always at a moral disadvantage because we’re told to turn the other cheek,” said Eberstadt. “So there’s been a lot of playing defense. I’m trying to go on offense.”
She calls her book “apologetics for the Facebook generation.” And they need it.
Please continue reading at the National Catholic Register>>>
May 24, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I see you've attracted the Usual Suspects in the combox over there…
May 24, 2010 at 11:35 pm
The combox at NCR just shows how good the book must be if the atheists are taking the time to pour out their seething rage and angst on a Catholic blog… looks like a good one, thanks for the post!
May 26, 2010 at 2:24 am
I won't go over to the Register because I want to get to bed sometime this decade and won't spend hours fighting atheist trolls.
Funny, though, how we're the ones who are so close-minded and prudish. Reminds me of the time someone made a video mocking Richard Dawkins and he didn't get it.
Methinks the atheists doth protest too much.