The smugness with which that new atheist circlejerk announces their atheism makes me want to punch myself; so, too, when their little acolytes proudly proclaim their shallow stupidities. It is not enough to charge them with all their philosophical mistakes: that they uncritically carry on enlightenment epistemology, that immediately after denying the existence of any possible absolute grounding they claim absolute validity for science/logic/knowledge, .. the list goes on. They don’t care to consider these things. They are like the mockers in the early part of The Madman parable. 

“This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars — and yet we have done it ourselves.”

Uncritical atheism is threatening to become one of the most dangerous totalizing conceptions of the age, the new dogma. Dash over to reddit’s atheism forum some time and you will see posts that question whether atheism should even have a name, since it is obviously the default position of all mankind. “It’s like, you know, they don’t have a word for people that don’t believe in unicorns. Why should there be a word for people that don’t believe in God?” 

Do we see how dangerous this is? A totalized knowledge that is attempting to recognize itself as absolute, attempting to identify its finite and flawed propositions with existence itself. “This isn’t what I think; it’s how things are.” We ought not to even dignify this lockstep-stumbling through the world with the name philosophy, for to do so would imply a degree of openness, existential reflection, and concern with Being that none of these fact-mongers have any taste for.