My perspective is that you had an appropriate scope because you would have had diminishing returns on your effort outside that scope.
This is what we all do in one way or another. Look at epistemology and ethics and argue for evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal ethics. We used to focus more on religion & its truth claims and the basis for them and ethics around women's and LGBT rights.
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Do you worry that we may have pushed against religion too hard in the mid-late 2000's? I do. I worry that a lot of what we've seen in the past few years is largely because the new atheist movement was *too* successful... that the religion hole was filled with... something else
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Yes and no. I think we were overconfident that if we made religion withdraw, people would become more reasonable and less ideological. I think this correlation does hold true to a certain extent but that we'll still find other outlets.
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