RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
April 17, 2013 at 4:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2013 at 4:35 pm by ManMachine.)
(April 11, 2013 at 2:51 pm)cato123 Wrote:(April 11, 2013 at 2:44 pm)whateverist Wrote: ...all I got was that while the author is atheist,
I have to accept his claim without further evidence, but I have serious doubts that MM is atheist.
I am an atheist. I recognise a Christian influence on new atheist thinking. This post is about identifying that influence and challenging the idea that science and technology leads to human progress. See my replies above.
MM
(April 10, 2013 at 8:49 pm)Polaris Wrote: This is more true of many American atheists who post online (well the more active individuals)....they are the biggest detractors to atheism and the biggest threat as well (they're just like those Christian Fundamentalists who ruin the image of Christianity)...sad that both are too arrogant to admit they are harmful rather than beneficial to their respective groups.
I have noticed they also both are quite gullible...say something they want to believe when it's clearly not based in fact or reality and they will believe it the majority of the time.
For these atheists, I think their major logical misstep is assuming that everyone who is religious is extremely dumb, so they don't feel the need to actually do any academic research on subjects they babble on about...it's like they are constantly debating a figment of their imagination.
And that cut-and-paste mindset reminds me when the Catholic Church only allowed the Bible to be written in Latin so only the priests could read it....except the difference is there is actually a choice for them to do research, so I lose further respect for these atheists because they have proven themselves to be lazy and worthless.
I can't comment on why these atheists choose not to research or at least recognise when they have a poor grasp of a topic before they try to screw it into the ground with circular reasoning, but they do.
Perhaps they are lazy, perhaps they are just indoctrinated. The latter is more worrying.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
