[ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ben, then how to explain the taliban-like intolerance of militant
> atheists? The only explanation I can find is that they thinkvthey know.
>
>
>>
>> I think I know this one - atheists realize that people who have a
>> religious faith are using mental apparatuses that are inferior to
>> empiricism and rationalism.  Faith is an irrational thing often involving
>> superstitions.  It's easy to see why an atheist would think that people of
>> religion are inferior and intolerable.
>>
>
bill w

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