Given the quantity of these insults, one wonders what the purpose of the book is. 'Look at how condescending and insulting that uneducated dolt is being!' (I cannot help having the feeling that even diagnosing the fallacy counts as a triple wingnut, but I refuse to get any more self-referential.) The website Sadly, No has the motto: 'It’s always projection.' Since it takes other fallacies as subsidiary parts, it cannot be taken as a subset of another fallacy, so I propose to call it the “Double Wingnut” because wingnuts are doing exactly what they are accusing the other side of doing.

This style of reasoning deserves a special name, and I’ve come to think of it as a defining feature on the right.

Clearly, he commits ad hominem fallacies and strawmen, but the irony is his use of ad hominem attacks on someone while accusing the opponent of committing ad hominems. The true surprise in this volume is the extent to which he insults the intelligence, scholarship, and character of his atheists (on pages viii, ix, xi, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 19 on the first 20 pages ), especially in the context of accusing his opponents of acting superior and insulting theists. The preface, for example, is a typical polemic about gay marriage undermining our God-given moral values, secular humanism destroying our society, etc. (They’re even hiding under your bed!) I must confess I was forced to skim some of the more tedious parts.

Feser either is part of the right-wing movement or he knows them well, because the book constantly pushes the victimization of all right thinking people by the atheists running the universities, the media, and the government. This book operates in the tradition of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberals Are the Real Big Poopyheads! (no, not that one, the first one). That’s just how wrong they are!) I thought it might be fun if there were some ridiculous arguments to pick apart. So I ordered a book, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, that was highly touted in its Amazon reviews (which, admittedly, could have been written by his friends), to see in what way the new atheists were fundamentally wrong, overly-simplistic, misguided, and just plain wrong. I had this weird idea, since I blog about atheism some, that I might look at the theist books that have been written in response to the new atheist movement.

The last superstition by edward feser