originally published 9/1/2009

What makes Christian belief so implausible to non-believers? In this Archive Feature, we revisit two conversations from Volume 98 of the Journal. First, Roger Lundin, author of Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age, explains how the disenchantment of the world led to new forms of doubt and self-expression. Then David Bentley Hart discusses his book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. Hart describes these delusions as a sense that the human race has been emancipated by agents of reason and tolerance. This is popularized atheism’s founding myth, he says, and it’s captivating and easy to follow. Hart’s book exposes the falseness of this revisionist and self-serving modern myth in vivid detail.

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