(July 9, 2015 at 8:23 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: So... What do you think about these guys? Which ones did you read, watch on youtube or just plain heard about? They are what made me more active as an atheist at least, in recent times. They also taught me a lot about how bad religion really is(but mostly Harris, since I didn't really read the other guys' books much). Hitch is surely to be missed, though, and Dawkins is much regarded as the most famous atheist on the planet. Dennett, I don't know much about, but the fact that he's a philosopher is a definite plus for me.
I think I'd like a summary of the video is what I think.
Just for anyone who doesn't have the time either, the Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse are:
Christopher Hitchens (a author, literary critic, and journalist, born British but now a U.S. citizen) took part in the The Great God Debate and wrote God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. He died a couple years ago.
Sam Harris is a U.S. neuroscientist and philosopher. He wrote: The End of Faith.
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and wrote a whole number of popular science books including the The Selfish Gene. He also wrote The God Delusion.
Daniel Dennett is an American cognitive scientist and a philosopher. He wrote Darwin's Dangerous Idea in which he contends that morality is the product of evolution.
All four are not only atheists, but think that religion is harmful.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.