October 12, 2007

No Sacred Texts Without God

To the Editor:

In "Are Sacred Texts Sacred? the Challenge for Atheists" (The Chronicle Review, September 21), Carlin Romano asks what the atheist's position should be on sacred texts. Incredibly, he concludes that it should be a polite position. Like many — most, it seems to me — of the advocates against atheism, Romano gets the rules of debate wrong. In doing so, he commits one of those breaches of etiquette against which he warns us.

Romano affirms that

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