Atheism "primarily an episode in the decline of Christianity" [View All]

[Don Claybrook]

This should get both the Christians and athiests going. I think it's a very good point, personally. What are your thoughts?

This is from the sidebar called "Among the Unbelievers" on page 53 of the print edition of this month's Utne Reader, by Jeremiah Creedon:

"(John) Gray, a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, calls atheism 'primarily an episode in the decline of Christianity.' As a 'mirror image of Western monotheism,' atheism 'shares many of its worst features,' including dogmatic followers who fear uncertainty no less than death. 'Happily, the athiest revival depends for its vitality on the primitive religiosity to which it is a response,' Gray concludes, 'and when that sputters out we can look forward to being rid of unbelief as well.' "