(October 5, 2021 at 4:12 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(October 5, 2021 at 9:21 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: This thread is the first I ever heard of Bret Weinstein. Why did the atheist community love him and why was I not informed?
Bret is on the best selling list now for latest book, so clearly people know him. The wokeists reject him now. The same goes for his brother, Eric Weinstein. He's being thrown under the bus for taking the new UFO information seriously. The same goes for Sam Harris. Sam is taking the new UFO information seriously, so that's going to make Sam a fraud to many. Dawkins? Supposedly now he's a fraud who hates transsexual people. Good thing Hitchens died when he did. If he was still around, Hitch would be public enemy number one to the wokeists. You either die a hero, or live to become a villain.
'The atheist community' doesn't really love anyone. We're not really a community and our affection, such as it may be, is as provisional as our consideration for a new hypothesis. It's fair to say we have a real community on this forum, predominantly of moderate skeptics. A pat on the back when you get something right, a WTF when you get something wrong. Being a hero today doesn't give you a permanent pass to screw up going foward. And screwing up today doesn't mean you won't get credit where it's due tomorrow.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
