RE: Sam Harris on 9/11
September 10, 2011 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2011 at 10:25 am by little_monkey.)
(September 10, 2011 at 9:13 am)StatCrux Wrote:(September 10, 2011 at 8:50 am)little_monkey Wrote: Harris is adressing the point that blind devotion to any god, religious or secular (read: the State) is dangerous.
My issue would be with the use of the term "God". Harris and others of his ilk seem to be under the impression that people who choose to believe aheist/materialist ideologies are immune from the very thing he is talking about. I have no problem in recognising the appalling crimes against humanity that Harris mentions, but these can be perpetrated by people of all ideologies, including atheism. Perhaps if atheists were to turn their attentions on to the emerging "new atheism" with unbiased, clear critical thinking they would recognise the familiar traits of blind faith in a given ideology that they happily point out in others...
What is ironic is that you are labelling atheism as an ideology, when in reality, a more appropriate designation would be a lack of ideology.The so-called "new atheism" has everything to do with coming out of the closet rather than being a new "ideology" of atheism. Perhaps you should be wary of the talking points used by the extremists who demonize anyone that disagrees with them. About the only fault one could make of atheists is their persistent nagging scepticism of anything that proponents of a certain ideology insist is their "true" holy grail.
