Raving Atheist Returns
It’s something as predictable as the change of the seasons; the village atheist, after a brief hiatus, emerges once again from the cold soil of silence into a new springtime of fresh rants.
But there’s something special about this particular atheist, or rather, about the village in which he resides. You see, he’s a vocal advocate of the pro-life movement, and a volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center to boot. He’s also a close friend of Dawn Eden, the Catholic apologist who wrote Thrill of the Chaste, and he often guest-posts on her blog.
Clearly, this man is not from the run-of-the-mill godless stock. He’s something special; indeed, something very rare, and perhaps even endangered; he’s among the last of his kind, a representative of a philosophical school which died out a century ago.
His philosophy came long before Ayn Rand’s objectivism, or Sartre’s existentialism; it preceded logical-positivism, secularism, modernism, postmodernism, and atheistic empiricism. He is numbered among the classical, politically and socially conservative, rationalists.
What is his name? No one really knows. He stalks the Internet quietly, hidden beneath his online persona, “Raving Atheist,” whispering his dark musings to anyone who has an ear to hear, or a bone to pick.
Thus, I have chosen to challenge him to a debate concerning his worldview’s basic asumptions. If it’s in accordance with Divine Providence, I will be joined by Mr. Wright, a devout Catholic philosopher and science fiction writer who converted to the Faith from an atheism roughly comparable to that of Raving Atheist’s.
So please stay-tuned. This is a square-off you definitely don’t want to miss…that is, if it actually happens!
