The Onion, the wildly popular satirical newspaper and website, is often hilarious. It is as often offensive. On occasion, it's also profound. Let me point you to an example of the last. In this article, The Onion completely eviscerates the intellectual pretensions of the "New Atheist," by which I mean the acolytes of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. (Caution: the title of the article is pure Onion offensiveness.) These folks don't argue that believers are wrong; they argue that religion makes matters -- and people -- worse. For example, Doug Kamin, the fictional subject of this fictional piece. He says he had always dismissed the activities that occur within Christian churches as "hysterical" and "cult-like." That's why he was recently so surprised by the music he heard emanating from a black choir in the church near his home. That sound and those songs have him questioning his...(Read Full Post)