The intellectual bankruptcy of the New Atheist movement was on full display during a recent two-hour discussion between prominent atheist Sam Harris and conservative columnist Ross Douthat, revealing just how disconnected these ivory tower elites have become from the struggles of everyday Americans.
While hardworking families grapple with inflation, border chaos, and the breakdown of our communities, Harris and his fellow New Atheists continue peddling the same tired materialism that helped create our current cultural crisis in the first place.
Empty Promises, Hollow Solutions
The New Atheist movement, which gained prominence in the early 2000s through figures like Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christopher Hitchens, promised that abandoning traditional faith would usher in an age of reason and progress. Instead, we got woke ideology, gender confusion, and a generation that worships government as their new god.
What does Harris offer Americans struggling to make ends meet or parents fighting radical school boards? Nothing but abstract philosophical musings that ignore the spiritual void his movement helped create.
"The New Atheists thought they could replace the foundations of Western civilization with scientific materialism, but all they've done is leave people rootless and searching for meaning in all the wrong places," observed one cultural commentator.
Meanwhile, President Trump's America First agenda recognizes that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles that actually provide answers to life's big questions and moral guidance for raising families.
Faith vs. Emptiness
The contrast couldn't be clearer. While New Atheists offer cold rationalism that strips away meaning and purpose, millions of Americans are rediscovering the power of faith, family, and tradition to build strong communities and raise healthy children.
Harris and his intellectual allies remain trapped in debates that felt relevant twenty years ago, completely out of touch with a nation experiencing a Great Awakening of patriotic and spiritual values under Trump's leadership.
Isn't it time we stopped listening to people who've spent decades tearing down the very foundations that made America great, and instead embraced the timeless principles that can restore our nation's soul?