The current wave of atheist fundamentalism, of which a certain John Guillaumier is a resounding trumpet in The Times (Tributes to Dawkins: December 17), has become a sort of militant religion with determined preachers straining to convert everyone to their belief. They quote pearls of pseudo-wisdom from many nonentities and a few scientists or thinkers who belong to their faith. They tend to believe only those people who nourish their own convictions and shut their intellects to opposing arguments that make them uncomfortable. Like their gurus Hitchens and Dawkins, they seem to wear intellectual blinkers that restrict their field of vision to the narrow angle of incontrovertible scientific proof, ignoring the fact that scientific research is progressively demonstrating, as it develops special technologies in many fields, the existence of many things we did not know existed since we could not normally see, hear, feel and detect them unaided.

Modern atheists believe in a chaotic universe existing by sheer chance and aimlessly producing physical, chemical and biological soups of increasing complexity culminating, through eons of progressive accidental mutation, in the formation of intelligent humanity, capable of abstract thought, without any particular purpose but to live, eat, grow, reproduce and die into oblivion.

Through the fog of their stunted cerebrations, intentionally devoid of spiritual enlightenment, they fail to detect any valid purpose behind the amazing order, laws and wonder of nature. These cynical persons consider life all around them, and existence in general, as pointless; with their militancy they peddle a philosophy of uselessness and hopelessness which is a menace to social well-being and, certainly, of no benefit to humanity. Why do they do it, one may ask?

I would like to believe that Mr Guillaumier is not a robotic atheist such as these, but is subconsciously seeking someone to convince him otherwise – hence his repeated interventions on the subject of the existence of God. I have noticed that very few people have bothered to respond to his contributions in the papers, probably because disproving disbelief in God is not a matter suitable for odd short letters in a newspaper in answer to sporadic blurts of atheistic proselytising.

So I thought that a good way to help Mr Guillaumier and his likes to shed their atheistic delusions, and begin to understand better the subject in question, is to recommend some books by scientists and philosophers critically and effectively countering and overturning all the arguments, one by one, in Dawkins’ book The God Delusion. These are: The Dawkins Delusion by A. McGrath and J.Collicutt McGrath (ISBN 978-0-8308-3446-4); God and the New Atheism by J.F. Haught (ISBN 978-0-664-23304-4); and Answering the New Atheism by Scott Hahn and B. Wiker (ISBN 978-1-931018-48-7).

I trust that Mr Guillaumier will not be so fanatical as to ignore my limited effort to enlighten him and bring him peace of mind.