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 haven't tuned into Harris into a while, so this is a fleeting impression, but I felt he came off as tone-deaf and reading from scripted arguments. Like many brainy atheists, he enthrones reason as the new deity, and assumes it'll stand in serviceably for Yahweh/God/Allah.
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You might like this talk. Gray is a bit dry in his presentation and it's bad recording, but still interesting. He, an atheist, thinks Harris and his crew are all idiots.http://www.econtalk.org/john-gray-on-the-seven-kinds-of-atheism/ …
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Funny you mention that book. Was reading a review of it this morning (and ordered it). I tend to agree with Gray. At some point, the Harris, Dawkins, et al crew come off as over-educated acolytes of their own newly-coined religion who didn't get the human condition memo.
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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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