Review: "God Is No Thing" by Rupert Shortt – an excellent response to New Atheism

[MellowDem]

36. Nobody cares about Christian writers/apologists...

Which is why "high-profile" atheists don't respond to them.

Few believers know their own belief system, and even fewer know the various apologetic arguments out there. The vast majority come to their belief through something other than being convinced by these apologetics. So in general discourse, they aren't discussed.

Most of the the high profile atheists are just populizers, and much of the atheist movement is about secularism, not philosophy of God. The intellectuals in apologetics are in a profession even their own flock ignore, and their arguments have little bearing for most people.

Creationism and "Gods Not Dead" represents a huge portion of religious pop culture in the US that many atheists are responding to. It seems a lot of religious apologetics don't understand just how ignorant most believers are of their own beliefs and how for many atheists, it's about fighting for equal access in a world full of religious privilege.

"But Dawkins didn't address the most common religious arguments in religious philosophy!" It's because religious philosophy is ignored and irrelevant for the vast majority of people out there. I'm more concerned with the huge number of believers that think atheists are just angry at God than metaphysical apologetics in my day to day life.

Other atheists have responded to these apologetics, professional philosophers even, and I've found all of the apologetics pretty bad regardless, and it's just not interesting to me at all, since it's not what most believers even base their beliefs on.