AN ATHEIST LETTER TO PROFESSOR CHARLES TAYLOR

Professor Taylor,

I don't mean any disrespect, but it seems to me that you should know better than to speak of God in any meaningful existential sense. If you refer to the word in terms of its cultural significance (that is one thing, a thing I might add, that already presumes the fictitious context of the thing in question). But if you mean to speak of God in terms of actualized existence, that there is, in fact, a real being behind the term, I can only marvel at the sheer arrogance of your presumption. As a learned man you ought to know better. The greatest threat our species faces is action motivated (and prohibited) by superstition, confused values that merely serve to waste and misdirect life. Surely the time has come to grow up? The idea of God cannot save us; it has always been the case that we must save ourselves. I have no doubt that you're a brilliant man, but fooling with the abstraction of God can only serve to detract your credibility as a thinker... amounts to a manifestation of your critical limitations. One can hardly find anything so vacuous as vague theism. 

Confidently yours,
Jersey Flight