“I think the fact that [Dawkins] was so unapologetic is why a lot of us became quite taken with his writings. It wasn’t so much what he was saying or how he was saying it, it was just the fact that he never apologized or capitulated for being an atheist... [but]...frankly, people like Richard Dawkins and even Sam Harris to some extent, are not viewed positively by young atheists now,”...“They actually don’t think that they’re that great. You still find people at the conventions who love them of course, but it does seem like they’re already a bit passé….They kind of pushed a door open, and that represents an opportunity, but the real task is to step through that door with some positive proposal of what life after religion has to look like.”
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:48:02 +0000
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