The New Atheists

<p>The new atheists criticize Christianity according to assumptions that are native to the Western understanding of religion. Those assumptions—theological ecclesiological and even anthropological and cosmological—originate in the occidental Middle Ages. The new atheists (and all atheists) are unwilling to confess that their worldview is indebted to Western Christian thought; indeed their atheism is product of this religion.</p><p>There would be no science without it.</p><p>Moreover the new atheists are ignorant of what we call Eastern Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy). If they knew that truth was not the product of reason they would have encountered God the one true God not the abstract deity (supreme being) of Western thought. Unfortunately the argument of theists delineated in public debates only strengthens the position of the new atheists. In himself God is unknown and unknowable. We know him because he reveals himself to those who seek him that is the Holy Trinity. Of course the knowledge of God is not cognitive but gnostic spiritual knowledge—something impossible for materialists.</p><p>Also the new atheists examine the nature and history of the church with false assumptions derived from the history of the West. They a priori deny the existence of the supernatural and therefore the validity of the gospel spoken and written. Into all this is thrown a false theology and therefore of Incarnate Lord and his place in history.</p><p>And of course the new atheists have no knowledge of the Eastern Church for no other reason than that they deny the supernatural holding that all forms of Christianity are fundamentally the same and that access to God and his will comes to the holy.</p>