Because let’s be honest about this — is there any law New Atheists can point to that has been their political output? That has changed due to their a… - Jacques Berlinerblau

[The "New Atheists"] fail to recognize that mocking religious people in public is entirely inimical to the goals they wish to achieve.

The Hebrew Bible, as a document, displays an astonishing lack of textual self-consciousness. It alleges to know what God thinks, but it does not know itself. It is not aware that it is called the Hebrew Bible. … Jews and Christians have venerated an unself-conscious artifact, one whose embarrassing gaps in self-knowledge have always had to be filled in by later interpreters.

Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture’s divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.