John Gray on Daniel Dennett's brand of complacency and superficiality. https://twitter.com/danieldennett/status/988799650156163079 …pic.twitter.com/ZS52F89iTR
If that's the best you can come up with, I will continue to ignore him. He should look at the statistics. Nones are growing faster than all religions, and younger people are much less likely to take religion seriously. For good reason.
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really grasping at straws when you point to the Taliban of a example of widely popular modern religion...
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There is enough moralizing to make up for it.
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Leave it, Daniel, he is not worth it!
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Neither looking at the statistics nor ignoring John Gray will help you to correct your dismissive reductionist thoughts on the subject of religion. Gray is a critic of the militant and proselytizing atheism so fashionable today. For good reason. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/01/why-humans-find-it-hard-do-away-religion …pic.twitter.com/MRSfHUnBmU
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Or maybe more an more people just think that adults that believe in magic are a little off putting.
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Isn’t the whole discussion a non-sequitur — I.e. the question of whether religion or atheism is ascendant among populations has no bearing on the truth value of religion, nor does it have bearing on the utility or non-utility of religion.
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Perfect double entendres of a last sentence.
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A straw-man made up from composition/division fallacy... if a person does not value logic, what logical argument can you give them to convince them that they should?
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It might be naively optimistic to hope ignorance will go away, but that does not make the goal less admirable.
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The point being that cultural exposure tends to mute or moderate extremist positions that are generally developed in isolation. Look at Ingelhart and Schwartz's work on world values. The more modern a culture the less traditionalist and religious it is. Thus the rise of nones.
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