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Sunday 15 March 2015

What scares the new atheists


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The vocal fervour of today’s missionary atheism conceals a panic that religion is not only refusing to decline – but in fact flourishing”

Evangelical atheists at the present time are missionaries for their own values. If an earlier generation promoted the racial prejudices of their time as scientific truths, ours aims to give the illusions of contemporary liberalism a similar basis in science. It’s possible to envision different varieties of atheism developing – atheisms more like those of Freud, which didn’t replace God with a flattering image of humanity. But atheisms of this kind are unlikely to be popular. More than anything else, our unbelievers seek relief from the panic that grips them when they realise their values are rejected by much of humankind. What today’s freethinkers want is freedom from doubt, and the prevailing version of atheism is well suited to give it to them.”

Or, to put it another way - what brand of non-religion are you selling?

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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