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A secular age

From TAC, can atheists form a movement around shared disbelief? From New Humanist, new wave atheism is aggressively antagonistic to religion, but, argues Richard Norman, it’s more fruitful to find common ground; after seven years on the faith front lines, Guardian religious affairs correspondent Stephen Bates is glad to be back on civvy street; and God almighty PLC: Marketing expert Winston Fletcher analyses a world-beating strategy. Antony Flew’s case illustrates the folly of argument by association in today’s God wars. More on A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. Stanley Fish on suffering, evil and the existence of God. Mary Lefkowitz on bringing back the Greek gods: Mere mortals had a better life when more than one ruler presided from on high. Monte Williams is not here to mock God and his fanatical fan club, but he'll sit back and let much more clever men and women mock them for him.