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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      12. The notable thing about Milton's God is not just argument but the tone: a deliberately insolent, school boy naughty nose-tweaking.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      13. Empson's tone and voice in Milton's God is very close to that of Hitchens in God Is Not Great -- talk of wickedness, torture, etc.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      14. As far as I know, Hitchens only referred to Empson in passing, but I think Milton's God must have been formative for Hitchens.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      15. Example of Empson's tone: "I think the traditional God of Christianity very wicked, and have done so since I was at school..."

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      16. "....where nearly all my little playmates thought the same."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      17. I sort of picture Empson and his fellow 6-year olds, all in short pants, chatting in the playground about how wicked God is.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      18. But while Empson was a precursor to the New Atheists, he remains superior to them in many ways.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      19. For all his school-boy insolence, Empson had a genuine moral horror at theodicy as a justification for pain and torture.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      20. Here, the excellent @RonRosenbaum1 applies Empson to critique a facile theodicy:http://observer.com/2005/01/disaster-ignites-debate-was-god-in-the-tsunami/ …

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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      21. For all his jokes, Empson took both Milton and the Christian God seriously & engaged in a deep textual argument with them.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014

      22. It's the intellectual strenuousness with which Empson quarreled with the Christian tradition that I don't see in the New Atheists.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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          23. The other great thing about Empson is that he had the most tremendous neck-beard in human history: https://twitter.com/LitGenius/status/531489896377384960 …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2014
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          24. In sum: people should read William Empson. He's a good egg, an often profound critic who is also very funny.

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        2. Evan Kindley‏ @evankindley 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet I think the fact that he felt like rationalism was intellectually embattled (at least in lit crit) is part of it. Dawkins et al…

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        3. Evan Kindley‏ @evankindley 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet …can afford to be so condescending in part because they have so much more institutional legitimacy than their opponents.

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        1. Peter‏ @bklynpeter 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet I think the New Atheists would respond with "The Courtier's Reply" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtier%27s_Reply …

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        1. Dave Mazella‏ @DaveMazella 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Connections w Enlightenment tradn of serious ethical evaluation of conventional Xian beliefs, making explicit what Xians assume

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        1. Dave Mazella‏ @DaveMazella 15 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet FWIW, Structures of Complex Words distinguishes WE from NAs, because he doesn't pretend the complexity cld be swept away w argment

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