/lit/ - Literature

>>6114439
No, I'm not an anti-theist but I firmly believe that New Atheism gets criticized unjustly
>hurrrr I get bullied by Atheists now fuck New Atheism fucking fedoras :(((((
How about you stop being such anti-intellectual twat and let counter-memes dictate your political and/or spiritual affiliatons

These Sam Harris pictures I'm posting are ironic, Harris is the opposite of smug and condescending, which is why I find it funny

>>6105745
What?
He made the claim that the issue with New Atheism is that it's an ignorant position, because everyone is merely conditioned into believing it either by being born into an Atheistic household and/or through peer pressure (what he means by pop culture).
I only made the comment that he's actually a hypocritical anti-intellectual for asserting that the New Atheism movement is exactly this and for making a baseless generalization that he in no way can back up with any form of evidence, not even an anecdotal one, because all the great New Atheist intellectuals have shown to have extensive knowledge of religion, mostly of the Abrahamic faith systems.
You would know this if you ever actually spent some time looking into their content.

Now again, if he was actually making a comment about their fanbase rather than the authors and critics who lead the movement, I already addressed that in the opening point.

Additionally, the assertion that (New) Atheism is stupid because people are born into it under some deterministic scope is massively stupid and irrelevant, because any other way of thinking -mostly- comes into existence through the same path, so it says absolutely nothing about New Atheism once you accept the premise that this is the norm and there's no alternative (on a generalized level, as he put it, of course the preferred angle is individualization, but that's a different topic).