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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The appeal of New Atheism is that it offered non-believers a muscular and dogmatic form of atheism specifically designed to push back against muscular and dogmatic religious belief. Yet that is also, in my opinion, the main problem with New Atheism. In seeking to replace religion with secularism and faith with science, the New Atheists have, perhaps inadvertently, launched a movement with far too many similarities to the ones they so radically oppose. Indeed, while we typically associate fundamentalism with religiously zealotry, in so far as the term connotes an attempt to “impose a single truth on the plural world” – to use the definition of noted philosopher Jonathan Sacks – then there is little doubt that a similar fundamentalist mind-set has overcome many adherents of this latest iteration of anti-theism.“

I think it’s interesting that Reza thinks New Atheism is much like fundamental Christianity, in that zealots have overtaken both movements. I don’t see how this article is “propaganda.”

Propaganda is biased or misleading. This is not. [/quote]

Oh yes it is.

Atheism, of "New Atheism" whatever the hell that is (not really a thing IMHO, Atheists have been around forever), is nothing like fundamentalist Christianity.

There is no dogma.
There is no bible.
There is no hierarchy.
There are no commandments.
There are no (real) churches.
There are no priests or ministers.

Atheism is simply the lack of a belief in a god.  That's it.

That is why Azlan's old article is 100% propaganda.[/quote]

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