When an Atheist is Impatient with Liberals

A friend emailed this and I found it interesting. The following quote from Michael Ruse’s article Why I Think the New Atheists are a Bloody Disaster. Turns out it’s sometimes easier to have intellectual integrity as an atheist than a liberal or emergent “Christian”.

I often refer to myself as a very conservative non-believer, meaning that I take seriously my non-belief and I think others should do (and often don’t). If someone goes to the Episcopal Church for social or family reasons, or because they love the music or ceremonies, I have no trouble with that. Had I married a fellow Quaker, I might still be going to Quaker meetings. But I have little time for someone who denies the central dogmas of Christianity and still claims to be a Christian, except in a social sense. No God, no Jesus as His son, no resurrection, no eternal life – no Christianity.