Currently I serve as Senior Contributing Writer for The Wittenburg Door, the nation's oldest, largest and only religious satire magazine and author of the following books: The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail: The Misguided Quest to Destroy Your Faith, Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church , and Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church: Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar . Also, I penned these Amazon shorts: Contemplating Coulter Christianity, Swamp Water: A Memoir, and My Memorial.
Just as there have always been those who misuse and misinterpret religion for their own personal and financial gain, there have a few of us crazy enough to take on the ungodly giants. As a religious satirist (aka court jester), I seek to deconstruct everything and anyone that tries to keep people away from the love of God. Whenever men try to create God in their own image or eradicate God from the face of the earth, I'm right behind them kicking down their prized creations. (Yes, sometimes I can kick a bit too hard, and for that I apologize.) But right after I've slaughtered the sacred cow, for a few brief moments, a calm comes over me. I can see very tiny bits of God shining through the cracks.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FROM THE FORWARD FOR NEW ATHEIST CRUASDERS AND THEIR UNHOLY GRAIL by Phyllis Tickle, author of The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord with Reflections by Phyllis Tickle
Becky Garrison has all the characteristics that mark and inform her strange profession. Most particularly, she has the brilliance and the passionate love. There are always implications and “effects†that sting in what she writes. There are witticisms that sting also, but there are far more that slice cleanly and with surgical precision through the illogics and pretentions and vapid thinking of sleight-of-hand pretenders to wisdom. Yet never, in all her previous work, has she ever used those skills and her gifts more efficaciously and successfully than here. When a female journalist takes on a coterie of academically-credentialed atheists, the jousting field looks a lot like David and Goliath. It looks that way, because it is that way. It also ends in the same way: David wins.
ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR THE NEW ATHEIST CRUSADERS
Garrison scores what could be devastating points against the New Atheists.—Publishers Weekly
Even though Becky Garrison has earned a reputation as a gutsy religious satirist, and even though she puts the full force of her sharp skills to use in this exposé on the “new atheist crusaders,†there is more going on here than you might imagine. Yes, she pokes good clean fun at their bloomers and fruit-of-the-loomers, but there are surprising confessional moments too, passages in which her vulnerability and humanity (can I say sincerity?) puncture the pretensions of her targets better than any direct confrontation. You’ll get more than you bargained for in this book. A lesson in style and strategy as well as substance and content—I highly recommended it.—Brian D. McLaren, author of The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything and Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope
Sassy, smart, and hysterically uncompromising, Garrison calls atheists and evangelicals to a deeper dialogue that moves beyond the aggressive self-righteousness of crusaders in all their guises.—Shane Claiborne, activist, new monastic, and author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical and Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radical
A snappy, yet serious tale of what intelligent faith means and how to keep it in your heart during these polarized times.—Joan Roughgarden, Professor of Biological Science and of Geophysics at Stanford University and author of Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist
I just finished reading The New Atheist Crusaders by Becky Garrison, and I don’t know which is more genius, her substance or style. It is an enlightening read as it unpacks and exposes the flaws of today’s pop-atheists with a brilliant, honest, and often hilarious writing voice. I have not enjoyed reading a book more than The New Atheist Crusaders in a very long time. Becky Garrison answers the atheists’ objections to the shortcomings of religion by offering a hopeful vision of ordinary and imperfect people seeking to live in the way of Jesus. Trust me, this is going to be a book everyone is talking about, and for good reason!—Jim Palmer, author of Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you)nd Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity
Finally we have an answer to moaning atheists—a credible, intelligent, and dynamic rebuttal to the woes of our society. Well written, reasonably argued, and full of insight. A book well worth reading for a modern age, and a must for anyone wanting to have a better understanding of the zeitgeist of life. Watch out Dawkins, Becky Garrison kicks butt! —G. P. Taylor, New York Times best-selling author of the Shadowmancer Series
