Unlike the much more sophisticated postmodern thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Michel Focault, Paul de Man and Richard Rorty, the new atheists, led by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Samuel Harris and Daniel Dennett, appear to be out of touch with 21st century realities. It is most particularly obvious to those who are familiar with the current intellectual and moral crises that the various expressions of the postmodern way of thinking have brought into the field of philosophical inquiry. As if trying to resurrect the past, the new atheists appeal to outdated rhetorics and arguments that have long been dismissed in the academic world as untenable and unfounded …
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