(April 13, 2020 at 5:33 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: The guy is a fucking journalist.
His journalistic standards dropped way off when he became a propagandist.
The God is Not Great book relies on anecdote. He takes quotes from the very worst people and pretends that they are representative. In cases where actual research would be relevant he ignores data to focus on nasty things people have said. He twists explanations to blame religion where it's irrelevant, for example calling Soviet experiments in genetics "papal" because they ignored settled science for political reasons -- never mind that the politics was anti-religion.
In the end he was advocating war based on WMDs which more careful journalists were far more skeptical about. In other words, he believed in things that didn't exist and advocated violence based on fantasy -- exactly what he says "religion" leads to.
