Who are your favorite current Atheists?

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Meh I don't disagree completely, I strongly dislike the idea of having "representatives" of atheists like Dawkins or Hitchens - You see, we can say that atheists only share their lack of belief in god as a common denominator, but regardless atheist celebrities push interests in the name of skeptics, atheists, and free thinkers. I like Dawkins and Hitchens and Harris, but I don't put them on a pedestal, all of them are imperfect to an extent - And I think many atheists don't fully feel represented by them. I would go one step further and say that most atheists worldwide are probably middle class people who are interested in living life peacefully without religious people bothering them, anti-theists like Dawkins and Harris don't represent accurately what most atheists think.

Sam Harris may be a good skeptic and scientist, but he loses everything when he argues that we should racially profile Muslims, just like Dawkins tweets questionable arguments like "rape X is worse than rape Y and if you disagree you are emotional and not logical"

That's accurate, but there's a difference between saying "I don't like Dawkins" or "He doesn't represent my views or opinions" and "He's more interested in selling books than the truth".

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I just posted a link above. Did you read it?

Yeah, that's an old article that I've already read a few times. Disliking someone's tone in a discussion of a topic doesn't give you the right to claim "they care more about selling books than about the truth". I don't know if you've read any of Dawkin's work, but it's pretty flatly scientific and dry in many places, not exactly super entertaining, and focused on the 'truth'.

I didn't say that merely disliking someone's tone justifies the belief that they care more about money and fame than the truth.

There's a bit more than tone. And neither do I slight him on his scientific work, which is actually very good.

Do you think it's reasonable for someone to read that article and become disgusted with Dawkins and the hypocritical greed he represents?