I'm writing abt 'New Atheism' now. I think we still need its ethos but its target needs broadening & its delivery softening.
Street epistemology, yes. But I'm talking about more general shift to it being bad taste to ask for evidence of claims & not respect beliefs
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And not just in relation to religion. Thinking of the New Atheist ethos as an anti-postmodern one. Normalise scepticism & need for evidence.
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Yes. What if scientist couldn't ask another one why they draw X conclusion?
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That's a convenient tactic they hide behind. If you can't ask why someone believes something you can't talk to them. OK to push back.
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I think it's happened so gradually as part of a liberal move towards tolerance that it's crept up on ppl & will be hard to unthink.
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In Challenging Postmodernism, David Detmer talks of seeing it creep over his students, the idea that different beliefs mean different truths
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It's become intolerant to even think in terms of there being right & wrong answers and some people being simply wrong in their beliefs.
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A shift from respecting people's right to their own beliefs to respecting the beliefs themselves as equally right.
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Sometimes I search for ppl saying to 'respect all beliefs' & talk it thru with them & they find the distinction genuinely hard to make.
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Question the belief not the believer.
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