RE: Atheism is "finally dying out"
April 13, 2013 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2013 at 7:09 pm by Ryantology.)
That sounded like wishful thinking and a concealed plea for respect of religion without ever offering a single good reason to do so.
I do note that Dawkins is not often as respected as other prominent atheists, but this is not because of poor polemic (I found his arguments compelling enough to abandon the strict agnosticism I once practiced), it's because he's easily flustered and frustrated when he argues with a believer who is being insistently stupid about something, where Hitch would simply dismiss the stupidity for what it was and move along; it never got much under his skin.
I do note that Dawkins is not often as respected as other prominent atheists, but this is not because of poor polemic (I found his arguments compelling enough to abandon the strict agnosticism I once practiced), it's because he's easily flustered and frustrated when he argues with a believer who is being insistently stupid about something, where Hitch would simply dismiss the stupidity for what it was and move along; it never got much under his skin.
