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Line 32: − − == Atheist John Gray on the weakness of secular thought == − [[File:John Gray.JPG|thumbnail|right|300px|The [[economist]] Tomáš Sedláček (left) and the [[atheism|atheist]] [[philosophy|philosopher]] John Gray (right) at ZURICH.MINDS 2012]] − The atheist philosopher [[John Gray (philosopher)|John Gray]] in ''[[The Independent]]'' said "The decline of secular thought is the subject of [[Alister McGrath]]'s provocative and timely ''The Twilight of Atheism''. (...) His aim is not so much to analyse atheism as demolish its intellectual credentials, and in this he is largely successful."<ref name=Gray>quoted in [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/religion/mcgratha.htm Summary of reviews] - see also summaries of reviews in several other publications</ref>
→Atheist John Gray on the weakness of secular thought
The philosopher and [[ex-atheists|ex-atheist]] [[Antony Flew]], who was one of the most prominent atheist academics in the world before adopting [[deism]], said about the [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]]: “The fault of Dawkins as an academic…was his scandalous and apparently deliberate refusal to present the doctrine he appears to think he has refuted in its strongest form”.<ref>[http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/ten-years-on-from-that-book-of-atheistic-faith-the-god-delusion-1-7496360 Ten years on from that book of atheistic faith, the God Delusion] by Mike Taggart</ref>
The philosopher and [[ex-atheists|ex-atheist]] [[Antony Flew]], who was one of the most prominent atheist academics in the world before adopting [[deism]], said about the [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]]: “The fault of Dawkins as an academic…was his scandalous and apparently deliberate refusal to present the doctrine he appears to think he has refuted in its strongest form”.<ref>[http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/ten-years-on-from-that-book-of-atheistic-faith-the-god-delusion-1-7496360 Ten years on from that book of atheistic faith, the God Delusion] by Mike Taggart</ref>
== Decline of atheist movement and failed attempts to rebrand atheism ==
== Decline of atheist movement and failed attempts to rebrand atheism ==