The mask has finally slipped on the so-called "New Atheist" movement that spent years attacking America's Christian foundations, and the results aren't pretty. A recent two-hour debate between atheist podcaster Sam Harris and Catholic writer Ross Douthat revealed just how bankrupt and meaningless the anti-God crusade has become in the Trump era.
While millions of Americans are rediscovering their faith and traditional values under President Trump's second term, intellectual elites like Harris are still peddling the same tired atheist talking points that helped drive our nation into the cultural wasteland we're only now climbing out of.
The discussion, highlighted by The Federalist, shows Harris struggling to offer any substantive vision for human flourishing beyond his usual attacks on religion. Meanwhile, Douthat articulated a coherent worldview rooted in centuries of Christian wisdom and natural law—exactly what America needs as we restore our founding principles.
The Atheist Dead End
Here's what Harris and his New Atheist buddies never understood: You can't build a civilization by tearing down everything that came before. While they spent decades mocking Christians and traditional values, they offered nothing meaningful to replace what they wanted to destroy.
Is it any wonder that the years of atheist influence coincided with skyrocketing depression, suicide, drug addiction, and social breakdown? When you tell people they're just meaningless accidents in a godless universe, don't act surprised when they start acting like it.
"The New Atheists promised enlightenment but delivered nihilism. They promised reason but gave us gender ideology and climate hysteria."
Now, as President Trump works to restore America's Christian heritage and constitutional foundations, the intellectual poverty of the atheist movement becomes impossible to ignore. They had their moment during the Obama-Biden years of cultural decay, and look what it got us.
America's Christian Awakening
Patriots across this nation are rejecting the godless vision that nearly destroyed our country. From parents taking back school boards to the Supreme Court protecting religious liberty, Americans are choosing faith over the empty promises of secular humanism.
The New Atheists had their day, and it failed spectacularly. Now it's time for Americans to rebuild our nation on the rock-solid foundation it was always meant to stand on: faith, family, and freedom under God.