Criticism of New Atheism

A collection of posts, videos, essays, memes, etc. criticizing or satirizing anti-religious atheists and their claims from both religious and non-religious perspectives.

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The Philip Pullman Dilemma | Peter Hitchens

Is Philip Pullman actually any good, or he just popular with the cultural elite because he is anti-Christian?

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Tyler the Ex-Evangelical Quits Swimming

Swimming couldn't make Tyler as cool as he wanted. This is clearly swimming's fault and definitely not Tyler's.

Lutheran Satire is at it again.

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Horus Ruins Christmas

Hey, did you know that the life of Jesus was stolen from the Egyptian God Horus? Oh, you know stuff about Horus? Well, I mean it was stolen from Mithras. Oh,...

It’s that time of the year again.

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Atheist Carols - "The 12 Days of Solstice"

Happy Winter Solstice, m'ladies and m'gentlemen. ---- I'm sorry for the horrible singing, none of my friends who can sing were willing to waste their time on...

Yes, it’s that time of year again.

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A Lesson in Skepticism

How skeptical is the so-called "skeptical community" on the internet? Let's give them a quote that directly challenges them to question its authenticity, and...

Years ago on Reddit, someone posted a fake quote that encourages people to be more skeptical. Not surprisingly, it became very popular.

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Atheist Carols - "Neil the deGrasse Tyson"

See video.

It’s that time of year again.

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The "Skeptic" Community is Intellectually Bankrupt and a Reactionary Cesspool

#Skeptic #Atheism #DankeyKang *tips fedora* m'lady Shout-out to my cat for meowing into the mic lol

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Reza Aslan Sums Up Modern Atheism in 5 Minutes

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Humans hunger for the sacred. Why can’t the new atheists understand that? | The Spectator

Does the world have a purpose? The new atheists regard the question as absurd. Purposes emerge in the course of evolution, they tell us; to suppose that they could exist before any organism can gain a…

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Not all criticism is irrational religious fervor

In the shadow of 9/11 and the Bush years, a movement of public intellectuals, bloggers and YouTubers arose concerned with what they perceived as a rise in fundamentalism. They were perturbed by both fundamentalist Islam destabilizing the world and conservative Christians at home dissolving the separation of church and state. They became known as the...

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His Boring Materials: HBO’s Philip Pullman adaptation fails because atheism has no story to tell

HBO’s latest fantasy offering is an adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s infamous His Dark Materials trilogy. The adaptation fails for the same reason that the preceding film adaption was a travesty: the source material is boring.

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Imagine how pissed off Richard Dawkins would be if people went after science with the same lack of knowledge that he attacks religion with

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People who unironically refer to themselves as ‘freethinkers’ almost invariably turn out to be the most dogmatic and conceited creeps imaginable.

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I don’t bother with Sam Harris. He specializes in hysterical, slanderous charges against people he doesn’t like. That’s of no interest to me… I don’t take him seriously.

Noam Chomsky giving a great example of how to handle new atheism in this interview. (via ghost--electricity)

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Where once atheists may have been figured as brave free-thinkers, today their contemporary descendants have (perhaps no less admirably, if in an ironic way) proved that an atheist can be just as proudly stupid as everybody else. I’m speaking of the so-called “New Atheists,” the indomitable quartet of the late essayist and Trotskyite-turned-neoconservative-apologist Christopher Hitchens, the biologist Richard Dawkins, philosopher Daniel Dennett, and I’m unsure what exactly he is, but the media personality Sam Harris. In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New Atheists dressed up warmed-over positivist fallacies, as well as historical and literary misinterpretations, with a bourgeoisie politics whose radicalism was in inverse relationship to how interesting its proponents thought that they were. Where atheism was once the position of metaphysical radicals like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, now it was the refugee of 'Well, actually…' guys on the internet.

Ed Simon

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The Atheist Illusion - Los Angeles Review of Books

Ed Simon parses “Seven Types of Atheism” by John Gray.

Ed Simon reviews John Gray’s book “Seven Types of Atheism” and criticizes New Atheists along the way.

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My good friend and founder of this blog, Chris Stedman, got into a lot of controversy a few years ago when he called New Atheism toxic, and frankly people were pretty petty and cruel in response (Seriously, people wrote about Chris Stedman eating shit-corn. That was about the level of intellectual discourse back