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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/how-the-new-atheists-merged-with-the-far-right-a-story-of-intellectual-grift-and-abject-surrender/

What once seemed like a bracing intellectual movement has degenerated into a pack of abusive, small-minded bigots

“Fast-forward to the present: What a grift that was! Many of the most prominent New Atheists turned out to be nothing more than self-aggrandizing, dogmatic, irascible, censorious, morally compromised people who, at every opportunity, have propped up the powerful over the powerless, the privileged over the marginalized. This may sound hyperbolic, but it's not when, well, you look at the evidence. So I thought it might be illuminating to take a look at where some of the heavy hitters in the atheist and "skeptic" communities are today. What do their legacies look like? In what direction have they taken their cultural quest to secularize the world?“

The author goes on (in the linked article) to detail the bigotry, misogyny, and overall grift and bad behavior of the “heavy hitters” of new atheism. It’s an extremely eye-opening article and was not written by a religious person. [/quote]

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