I came up watching the New Atheist debates too. What's crazy is if you go back and listen to those kinds of debates now, the New Atheists are all rhetoric and no substance, even Hitchens. Sam Harris is the worst. They have nothing but incredulity and appeals to emotion, but they won the frame game. The Christians lost the optics battle because they weren't prepared.
I came up watching the New Atheist debates too. What's crazy is if you go back and listen to those kinds of debates now, the New Atheists are all rhetoric and no substance, even Hitchens. Sam Harris is the worst. They have nothing but incredulity and appeals to emotion, but they won the frame game. The Christians lost the optics battle because they weren't prepared.