(April 7, 2015 at 2:04 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(April 7, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Not even atheists are immune to buying bullshit. I run into atheists sometimes who really don't educate themselves past "that makes no sense", but ask them about Dawkins or Harris, never read anything, they say "I don't care as long as they don't harm me." I also run into others that rightfully jump on standard religions and the scientific absurdities, but buy into new age woo, or conspiracies like 9/11 and JFK.
"Atheist" does not describe education level nor does it mean the individual is right about everything all the time.
I fail to see the need for an atheist to read books from those authors. Not all of us love Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris enough to read all their books.
Totally agree. It just lends credence to the idea that atheism is a belief system with an orthodoxy, creed and honored elite.
