Ross Douthat and the New Theism

Right now is a good time to become a believer, says American intellectual Ross Douthat. He is convinced that believing in God is the most logical thing in the world.

Ross Douthat and the New Theism

Twenty years after the new atheism coursed triumphantly across the West, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar is upon us. No less than Deity-denier Richard Dawkins marked the transmutation last year, via a viral video in which he called himself a hymn-and-small-c-church-loving "cultural Christian." That secular confession tracks with broader reality. God may not exactly be back—the decline in both churchgoing, and church-knowing, trudges on. B…