(June 21, 2015 at 2:15 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: It's a common term. I think you've heard it before.
Randy, why don't you try to put it in your own words? I know you have trouble thinking for yourself, but I believe in you. You can do it.
The "New Atheists" include people like Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett and Harris - the Four Horsemen. What made these atheists "new" was not their arguments but their attitude that religion should be reviled. Secular humanist Tom Flynn wrote:
Quote:"The triumph of Harris, Dennett, Dawkins and Hitchens was to take arguments against religion that were long familiar to insiders, brilliantly repackage them, and expose them to millions who would never otherwise pick up an atheist book. Let me say again in bolder type. There is nothing new about the New Atheism. [original emphasis]" (Tom Flynn, "Why I Don't Believe in the New Atheism." http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?sec...flynn_30_3)
