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Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson is a writer and editor of the secular website Butterflies and Wheels. She is a columnist for Free Inquiry and The Philosophers’ Magazine, where she was formerly an associate editor, and she has co-authored (with Jeremy Stangroom) several books, including The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir Press, 2004), Why Truth Matters (Continuum, 2007), and Does God Hate Women? (Continuum, 2009).

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Ophelia Benson

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Attacks on New Atheism, especially from fellow atheists, are ill-advised, counter productive and play into the hands of the religion apologists, argues Ophelia Benson

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