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In case anyone is wondering what the book is!
Oh, I see, good idea for a book!
Pretty sure the author started out on Reddit.
Atheism, famous for only starting on Reddit!
What I would like people to understand is that there is a difference between new atheism and Atheism. The latter is perfectly acceptable and is merely the state of disbelief in God, the former is being an obnoxious prick who makes disbelieving in "Sky Daddy" their only personality trait and finding contradictions in the bible while ignoring things like Allegory, Historical Context, and not taking into account alternative translation their only Hobby.
It's the difference between me who might go to church just to have an excuse to get out of the house on a Sunday morning if at all what is more likely to just sleep in or play Mega Man Battle Network and the cheeto-dust covered incel who blames the existence of celibacy for how dry their dick is.
Remember that time when a guy at an atheist conference sexually assaulted a woman in an elevator, and Richard Dawkins just blamed her for not being grateful because "a Moose Lamb would have done worse!"
Or that time when he claimed because we are just our bodies and Souls can't possibly exist, that trans people are obviously just the gender version of blackface?
I'd say there isn't a single member of the Four Horsemen of new atheism who hasn't made a clown out of themselves, and I would be completely correct. Anyone who has ever seen a proper debunking Christopher Hitchens' Hell's Angel.. a book where he claims that that which can be submitted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, while ironically making several basis claims about Mother Teresa and using fake quote attributed to Thomas Aquinas who wasn't even alive at the same time as Mother Teresa....
Will tell you that Christopher Hitchens is not free from embarrassment just because he happened to die sooner than the others.
So what new atheist speaker do I recommend? Well none of them really. most of them have ties to the far right, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson might as well be connected the hip.
Instead of going out to find arguments from people who think they are so smart because they noticed that there is no God, ( you know something that is as easy to figure out as wondering why abuse children don't get assigned guardian angels or the fact that people who pray for healing never seem to regrow limbs or anything else that should literally be possible without a miracle) just do what science would do, simply ignore claims that require evidence but don't have any.
I wish there was a god, I feel like the world needs magic and mystery, but there isn't an ounce of it to be found.
Edit: I'm being downvoted eh? So the Reddit Atheists have jumped ship
I wish there was a god, I feel like the world needs magic and mystery, but there isn’t an ounce of it to be found.
Dude, have you even looked at the universe. It’s fucking amazing. Why would you want to cheapen it with magic? That’s just sad.
Because my friends are dead and in a universe with Magic, I actually get to see them again.