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"The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
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#61
RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 2:22 pm
Fine.

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#62
RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 3:26 pm
I'm still not sure what an 'new' atheist even is. I've always been an atheist, long before I'd ever even heardnof Dawkin's et al, or indeed before I knew what an atheist was.
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#63
RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 3:35 pm
(December 25, 2015 at 3:26 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: I'm still not sure what an 'new' atheist even is. I've always been an atheist, long before I'd ever even heardnof Dawkin's et al, or indeed before I knew what an atheist was.
"New Atheist" is just a sly theistic notion that people are straying from god too easily and too fast for their liking, an attempt to discredit the increasing rise in atheism as some sort of new-aged fad that will die off with claims against their own that they want to disregard as having no validity prior to their popularity.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 3:41 pm
(December 25, 2015 at 2:07 pm)Delicate Wrote:
(December 25, 2015 at 2:00 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Haha. It is like a pig, wearing the finest clothes.
Are you describing your mother's wedding picture?

Ha, the hallmark of intellectual superiority, a 'yo momma' attempt of an insult. Bwahahaha.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 3:51 pm
(December 25, 2015 at 11:08 am)Judi Lynn Wrote:
(December 25, 2015 at 9:11 am)mh.brewer Wrote: I think he got the "Resort" part right. We have a pool, tennis courts, riding trails, golf, freedom of mind.............

Don't forget about the special grills we have for cooking babies.

You sicko, no sane atheist I know eats anything but barbecue kittens.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 4:01 pm
OP - Ah yes, the old "Sophisticated Theology" trope. They just don't unnerstan what REAL Christians believe in!

Meanwhile, a large majority of the US population believes in a literal Adam and Eve, the great Flood, a man surviving being swallowed whole by a fish, virgin birth and zombie resurrection.

How very, very sophisticated indeed.

Lol.

New atheist = Unmuzzled old atheist in print and on the internet.

So, believers - give us some of that good old timey "Sophisticated Theology" that we may be cowed by the overwhelmingness of the awesome-est arguments! Verily! Do tell! Save us from Hell Fires, torments and Demons!
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 4:03 pm
(December 25, 2015 at 2:20 pm)robvalue Wrote: If I can find a handful of Christians who make some dumb arguments, does that show Christianity is dumb and bankrupt?

Delicate seems unable or unwilling to understand what atheism is. Some have been here much longer though and also still don't know what it is.

Funny how it works the other way. People generalize about religion all the time.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 4:08 pm
That's why I try to find out what people believe in their own words, rather than putting them into their mouths.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 4:13 pm (This post was last modified: December 25, 2015 at 4:21 pm by Pat Mustard.)
(December 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Quantum Wrote: I have predicted the author of this thread from the title alone. Am I psychic?

I further predict that as soon as we get five separate posters debunking his nonsensical witterings, he'll flounce off in a huff and go crying to mammy.

Hey, it's happened every other time, so no need to break form.

Oh, and in response to the OP's quoted article, it's been debunked (by a colleague of Mr Linker, that must have burned). Turns out that Mr Linker forgot to go to the trouble of defining what he was arguing for, and simply writes in nebulous nonsensical terms.

If this is what delicate considers to be good and intelligent debate, no wonder we see a plenitude of knuckle dragging from him.
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RE: "The New Atheists are back — and dumber than ever"
December 25, 2015 at 4:14 pm
(December 25, 2015 at 3:26 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: I'm still not sure what an 'new' atheist even is. I've always been an atheist, long before I'd ever even heardnof Dawkin's et al, or indeed before I knew what an atheist was.

Much like the majority of delicate posts, It all hinges on his own personal definitions.
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