(August 6, 2014 at 10:09 pm)Blackout Wrote: I'm not responding to the Palestine V Israel conflict, but to the original intention of the thread. I think Sam Harris has already become an anti-religious 'pariah', the same way it happened with Hitchens and Dawkins, that's just how things tend to go. The fact he is anti-religion (or an anti-theist for that matter) doesn't influence my evaluation of his contribution to both atheism as a 'worldview' and secularism, which are greatly positive. Of course people like those will always affect citizens' beliefs and offend their hearts, but at the same time they automatically de-convert thousands from religion. You can't please both sides.
What the fuck? I do not think any of them lost their punch at all. Hitchens may be dead but he still lives on and his books are still relevant today. And Dawkins as well.
I do not think Harris or Dawkins are really worried about how the public views them. The still have audiences and will continue to write and will still sell books.
