Who are your favorite current Atheists?

[FatAndFaithless]

Meh I don't disagree completely, I strongly dislike the idea of having "representatives" of atheists like Dawkins or Hitchens - You see, we can say that atheists only share their lack of belief in god as a common denominator, but regardless atheist celebrities push interests in the name of skeptics, atheists, and free thinkers. I like Dawkins and Hitchens and Harris, but I don't put them on a pedestal, all of them are imperfect to an extent - And I think many atheists don't fully feel represented by them. I would go one step further and say that most atheists worldwide are probably middle class people who are interested in living life peacefully without religious people bothering them, anti-theists like Dawkins and Harris don't represent accurately what most atheists think.

Sam Harris may be a good skeptic and scientist, but he loses everything when he argues that we should racially profile Muslims, just like Dawkins tweets questionable arguments like "rape X is worse than rape Y and if you disagree you are emotional and not logical"

That's accurate, but there's a difference between saying "I don't like Dawkins" or "He doesn't represent my views or opinions" and "He's more interested in selling books than the truth".

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What about Dawkins makes you think he isn't interested in "Pushing the truth", whatever that means.

I just posted a link above. Did you read it?

Yeah, that's an old article that I've already read a few times. Disliking someone's tone in a discussion of a topic doesn't give you the right to claim "they care more about selling books than about the truth". I don't know if you've read any of Dawkin's work, but it's pretty flatly scientific and dry in many places, not exactly super entertaining, and focused on the 'truth'.