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Theodore Atkinson's avatar

I admit I use to listen to a few atheists when I was a younger (not Dawkins, because he's insufferable), but the problem I realized is they don't really have anything to say.

Modern atheism is purely Socratic skepticism. There's no deeper truth, no novel insight. Just mindless arrogant pecking. If they had any values, then dealing with these revived Mesopotamian cults, or the hoards of Mecca, would be a just and thrilling challenge, but their values are based on self-interest because they swallowed nihilism hook, line and sinker.

Word games or pedantic one-up rhetoric won't cut it. These cults need to be sent back to hell.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I do think this will be the lasting legacy of the new atheists. Their naivety. Peter Hitchens, the conservative church going brother of Christopher Hitchens, once challenged them by saying if you remove Christianity it won't be replaced with nothing as they imagine.

Silence from the atheists. Theirs is just a sophisticated form of vandalism. And Dawkins is finding out firsthand what it is being replaced with. The New Britons openly state their goal is absolute domination. The middle classes in Britain like elsewhere are in total denial about what is happening. Dawkins has at least noticed.

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