I'm thinking of religion vs. atheism these days (long story), and I found this an interesting dialogue between the patron saint of New Atheism and the founder of TED (who apparently was raised evangelical).https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-ted-interview/ …
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I think the interesting point he makes is that these guys haver cargo-culted a lot judeo-christianity and simply repackaged it. I could not tell you what he 7 kinds of atheism are, so either I didn't listen or he wasn't very clear on that part.
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Right. The biggest argument against all this New Atheism stuff is that they've just repackaged religion in more palatable form. No actual human just sits there and stares into the nihilist abyss for very long, and actually lives to form an ideological lifestyle around it.
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Just got my copy, and only maybe 20 pages in, but already think it's brilliant. He really puts the New Atheists in their place, which is a far narrower one than they themselves seem to think.
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