(June 21, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 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)
We don't need new arguments when your side has utterly failed to address the old ones; and I must remind you that smug insistence that you have is not actually a rebuttal. Your arguments are only convincing if you already accept the conclusions that they were geared to lead to.
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