I haven’t read literary critic Terry Eagleton’s new book on the “new atheists,” and I’m frankly not that interested in the whole new atheist phenomenon period (I haven’t seen much to indicate that one wouldn’t be much better off reading, say, David Hume for razor-sharp critiques of religion). But Kim at “Connexions” has some provocative quotes from Eagleton here and here.

My one worry about Eagleton is that he just wants to use Christianity as a bludgeon to beat capitalism with, and isn’t particularly interested in whether or not it’s true. I can recommend his earlier book After Theory, though.