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Wieseltier Slams New Atheism, Calls Hitchens a 'Buffoon'

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Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, weighs in on modern atheism, which he calls a byproduct of the coarse religiosity practiced by evangelicals and hyper-religious public figures like George W. Bush. "I take Dawkins seriously," he says. "I think Hitchens is a buffoon."

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