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In reply to the discussion: I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]cpwm17
(3,829 posts)How can I be using "right wing talking points and broadbrushing atheists"? That makes no sense. I explicitly wrote I was referring to "new atheists" and not liberal atheists. I'm using the term "new atheist" as it is popularly used.
I'm an atheist (for 40 years), but much more importantly, I'm anti-war. Atheists that are associated when the so-called "new atheist" movement tend to be pro-war, or at least rather bigoted. I have little in common with them.
Years ago I watched some of the "Four Horsemen" YouTube video where they are all together discussing issues related to atheism. The more I watched the more I hated them all, except Richard Dawkins.
As was his habit, Christopher Hitchens made some almost sociopathic comments and neither Sam Harris nor Dennett were fazed at all. Richard Dawkins seemed uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation. I really haven't paid much attention to Dennett's atheism beyond that, though I didn't like the book he wrote "Consciousness Explained". I found it annoying.