Mostly agree with this thread but also think this type of atheist critic of religion is largely Left before the Left moved.https://twitter.com/hashtaggriswold/status/923202079488970753 …
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From my piece 'Where Now for New Atheists.' https://areomagazine.com/2017/05/15/where-now-for-new-atheists/ …pic.twitter.com/eIo0hYReYT
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Thread makes a lot of sense. Also feel the issue w/ "new atheism" is the high level of arrogance a lot of people have that fit that "group"
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Replying to @AussiePhinatic
I don't think so particularly. They (we) were polemical & had those who took it to arrogant arseholery but less so than a lot of groups.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There are certainly other groups you could say are worse, they had a larger, time weathered foundation. New Ath. not so much.
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Replying to @AussiePhinatic @HPluckrose
I guess I just noticed it more & expected better, always felt one should act/be better than the "opponents"
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Replying to @AussiePhinatic @HPluckrose
So many read Dawkins or Hitchens & then they become these arrogant know-it-alls, it becomes a deterrent for others w/ similar interests.
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Replying to @AussiePhinatic
I don't know how that works. If you're deterred from being an atheist coz you don't like polemical atheists, you're not actually an atheist
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Not from being an atheist but being a part of or closely associated with those within a group.
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Well, that's fine. Not everyone who disbelieves in an ideology also dislikes it and also wants to criticise it. A lot is abt personality.
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