{"product_id":"9781575674742","title":"The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief","description":"The new atheists are on the warpath. They come armed with arguments to  show that belief in God is absurd and dangerous. In the name of societal progress,  they promote purging the world of all religious practice. And they claim that people  of faith are mentally ill. Some of the new atheists openly declare their hatred  for the Judeo-Christian God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian apologists have been quick to respond  to the new atheists’ arguments. But there is another dimension to the issue  which begs to be addressed--the root causes of atheism. Where do atheists come from?  How did such folks as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher  Hitchens become such ardent atheists? If we are to believe them, their flight from  faith resulted from a dispassionate review of the evidence. Not enough rational  grounds for belief in God, they tell us. But is this the whole story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCould  it be that their opposition to religious faith has more to do with passion than  reason? What if, in the end, evidence has little to do with how atheists arrive  at their anti-faith? That is precisely the claim in this book. Atheism is not at  all a consequence of intellectual doubts. These are mere symptoms of the root cause--moral  rebellion. For the atheist, the missing ingredient is not evidence but obedience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  psalmist declares, “The fool says in his heart there is no God” (Ps.  14:1), and in the book of Romans, Paul makes it clear that lack of evidence is not  the atheist’s problem. \u003ci\u003eThe Making of an Atheist \u003c\/i\u003econfirms these biblical  truths and describes the moral and psychological dynamics involved in the abandonment  of faith.","brand":"Moody Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167639912688,"sku":"9781575674742","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781575674742_p0.jpg?v=1763798107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781575674742","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}