RE: Jeff Sparrow on the need to save ourselves from the sickishness of the New Atheists
March 20, 2016 at 4:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 4:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 18, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: The only thing that makes the new atheists new, as I read it, is the times we live in and the diminished state of religious institutions.
When they're already on their knees may not be the most gallant time to go for the jugular. Given their own time perhaps they'll make some compromise with the modern world which will mean more coming from themselves than the moron-shaming we could hand out.
Given time, you say. The centuries preceding weren't enough? It's not as if religion ended up on it's knees because it tripped and fell. That's a strange summary of it's position when people in 1st world countries still cast gods vote in absentia, in any case. It's become socially acceptable to criticize religion loudly and openly only -because- people criticized religion loudly and openly. Because, for example, people took their stories literally and exposed the absurdity of them in doing so. Those institutions, at their -very- best, used polite silence like a weapon long after they lost the ability to burn dissenters alive.....and at their worst they did and continue to do much, much more......and you sympathize, lol?
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