[ExI] Tolerance

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 16:06:51 UTC 2009


2009/12/7 JOSHUA JOB <nanite1018 at gmail.com>:
>> It depends on why they insist. I find the so-called "new atheists" whose
>> arguments against religion amount to little more than "Religion Sucks!
>> Nyeah!" to be incredibly tiresome people.  Compare and contrast the
>> eloquent, rational atheism of Russell and Hitchens, to the
>> emotionally-charged atheism of Dawkins ("Hur hur hur if you believe in God
>> you're stupid, so we're going to call atheists 'Brights'!  Get it? Huh? Hur
>> hur hur.")
>> Brent Neal, Ph.D.
>
> Dawkins arguments aren't at all like what you suggest.

I am surprised that one may find Hitchens, with his heavy, moralistic
rhetorics, more "rational" than Dawkins, who if anything makes for a
much more pleasant reading...

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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