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Atheism and the "Shut Up, That's Why" Arguments

This has been sitting in my to-write-about bucket for a while, but I'm not going to get around to it. Go read: Greta Christina's Blog: Atheism and the "Shut Up, That's Why" Arguments.

34 Unconvincing Arguments for God

From Atheist Revolution:

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blockquote>Whenever someone commits a horrible crime and then claims that some god told them to do it, believers and non-believers unite to reject the claim. Non-believers have an easy time rejecting the "god make me do it" defense because we reason that mythical beings cannot influence human behavior. We might accept the possibility that the criminal's belief contributed to the action, or we might look for mental illness. The believer often has a different path to the same conclusion. Read more »

Atheism’s Wrong Turn, or, The Atheist Dogma

Sam Harris recently posted Atheism’s Wrong Turn, an article by Damon Linker in The New Republic. I don't want to address the entire thing, but at least part of the premise it's built upon. As Linker puts it:

That’s because “the new atheism” is not particularly new. It belongs to an intellectual genealogy stretching back hundreds of years, to a moment when atheist thought split into two traditions: one primarily concerned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth, the other driven by a visceral contempt for the personal faith of others.

Today’s bellicose atheists are part of the second tradition.

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