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Good for you. When I say I haven't read his books it isn't because I don't approve or agree, but I'm an atheist and I don't need to be convinced by him. I actually spend more time looking at the questions aimed at non - belief.
Yeah, I know what you mean, I wasn't any more or less an atheist after reading his book, it did reinforce some of my thinking and reasoning though. But that's all, just a reinforcement. I did enjoy reading it. Not as much as Chuck Berry's autobiography, or Turnaround by Bill Bratton, or the Jimi Hendrix biography Room Full of Mirrors.But I did find it difficult to put down once I started it.
I'm not really sure why they think this would be appealing except that many of them probably are professors and are kind of nerds. Maybe this partly explains the somewhat lower appeal among women with the "New Atheists." They're not exactly Simone De Beauvoir, although looking her up I guess she had pedophilic tendencies eek, or even Ayn Rand for that matter. (Julia Sweeney does alright, but she's just one person and being the voice of female atheists would be a bit much)
You have forgotten Madylyn Murray O'Hair who was in her time the most hated woman in America.
Quote:
"There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you."
he Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, quoted from Free Thought Magazine (Sept. 1896)
And for a contemporary woman we have Ayaan Hirsi Ali who was raised a Muslim and escaped from it to Holland.
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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
I thought of mentioning O'Hare. I knew Ayaan Hirsi Ali first as a rather strident anti-Muslim, but I have to admit seeing her on the TV she was much calmer and more reasonable than I'd expected. Not that I really agree with her or anything, but it was a surprise.
I'm not sure I understand your questions. I think what I said is pretty clear and the meaning self-evident.
By "Atheist cause" I simply mean "Atheism." Hitchens argues that Atheism is true. I don't know how else to explain it.
Perhaps try rewording your question?
Arq--is this a matter of me not knowing the "secret Atheist handshake" and if so, could you translate?
My inquiries are quite simple. The reasons you provided do not add up to what you were asserting, or what you "thought". It doesn't follow logic, so I was asking for clarification.
Why would any rational person want God anyway as I implicitly ask at the thread why believe in God? Never wil I brain-wash myself to become a Yehua zombie! I despise that jerk!
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