Why Are Atheists So Angry?

Jewcy.com

Earlier this year, Newsweek religion columnist Marc Gellman confessed that atheists had lately befuddled him: “What I simply do not understand is why they are often so angry,” Gellman lamented. “I just don’t get it.”

Why are atheists so angry? Sam Harris and Dennis Prager inaugurate Jewcy’s “Big Question” series by arguing this very question. In the Big Question, passionate thinkers will debate the weightiest, most contentious issues of the day via e-mail.

Author of the thundering anti-theist polemics The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation, Harris may just be the Thomas Paine of an emerging movement to wrench religion out of American life. Prager is a nationally syndicated talk radio host who trumpets the virtues of the Judeo-Christian tradition. For the next four days, each of them will send us one e-mail per day.

Day 1
From: Sam Harris
To: Dennis Prager
Subject: Yahweh Belongs on the Scrapheap of Mythology
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/monday_why_are_atheists_so_angry_sam_harris

From: Dennis Prager
To: Sam Harris
Subject: The Faith of Disbelief
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-16/day_1_dennis_prager_why_are_atheists_so_angry


Day 2
From: Sam Harris
To: Dennis Prager
Subject: The Burden of Proof Falls on the Faithful
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-17/day_2_harris_why_are_atheists_so_angry

From: Dennis Prager
To: Sam Harris
Subject: Straw Men, Teapots, and Moral Confusion
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-17/day_2_prager_why_are_atheists_so_angry


Day 3
From: Sam Harris
To: Dennis Prager
Subject: An Irrelevant Argument and Its Imaginary Facts
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-20/day_3_harris_why_are_atheists_so_angry

From: Dennis Prager
To: Sam Harris
Subject: Unhappy Correlations
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-20/day_3_prager_why_are_atheists_so_angry


Day 4
From: Sam Harris
To: Dennis Prager
Subject: Three Ways to Miss the Point
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-21/day_4_harris_why_are_atheists_so_angry

From: Dennis Prager
To: Sam Harris
Subject: Your Task is Far Greater than Mine
http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/11-21/day_4_prager_why_are_atheists_so_angry