The new, New Atheism
February 26, 2015 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 12:02 pm by Whateverist.)
So I came across this on FB.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8885...s=og.likes
Who is ready for the new, new atheism? Is this really a thing? I guess I'm in. Religion, at least any variety which does't strive for some form of Sharia law, is fine with me. I just respond the same way I do when passed the lima beans, not for me thank you.
Supposedly we're experiencing a back lash of non-believers who are less anti-religious, who mine religion for practices of value for a secular life. Can't say that I personally am looking for more ritual in my life. Of course there is the example of one of the champions of atheism (names are more and more elusive for me) who advocates meditation.
I hadn't heard that 9/11 is thought to have spurred a more public stance against religion, attributing the acts of terrorism to the religiosity of those who carried it out. Maybe yes, maybe no. But the suggestion is that that has now burned itself out and in the reaction to that over-reaction, there is emerging some anti-anti backlash. News to me. But then this is the only site where I regularly hear from atheists.
I wonder if the new, new atheism will be the sort of thing around which communities will grow. There doesn't seem to be as much to rally around.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8885...s=og.likes
Who is ready for the new, new atheism? Is this really a thing? I guess I'm in. Religion, at least any variety which does't strive for some form of Sharia law, is fine with me. I just respond the same way I do when passed the lima beans, not for me thank you.
Supposedly we're experiencing a back lash of non-believers who are less anti-religious, who mine religion for practices of value for a secular life. Can't say that I personally am looking for more ritual in my life. Of course there is the example of one of the champions of atheism (names are more and more elusive for me) who advocates meditation.
I hadn't heard that 9/11 is thought to have spurred a more public stance against religion, attributing the acts of terrorism to the religiosity of those who carried it out. Maybe yes, maybe no. But the suggestion is that that has now burned itself out and in the reaction to that over-reaction, there is emerging some anti-anti backlash. News to me. But then this is the only site where I regularly hear from atheists.
I wonder if the new, new atheism will be the sort of thing around which communities will grow. There doesn't seem to be as much to rally around.
