Comments on: The Best of the Neo-Atheist Crop http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/ A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton Fri, 16 May 2008 03:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jake http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48663 Jake Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:06:13 +0000 http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48663 And that's why we like having you around, Casey. And that’s why we like having you around, Casey.

]]> By: casey http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48661 casey Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:46:50 +0000 http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48661 ha. no worries, jake. i know i was supremely fucked up. ha. no worries, jake. i know i was supremely fucked up.

]]> By: tomsheepandgoats http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48623 tomsheepandgoats Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:11:13 +0000 http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48623 I haven't read the book, but I did come across this in Saturday's WSJ: "Mr Hitchens, as part of his book promo, challenged a panel that included an Orthodox Jew and a Buddhist nun. "I now wish I hadn't participated," say Nathan Katz, a professor of religious studies at Florida International University. "he was utterly abusive. It had the intellectual level of the Jerry Springer Show" Of course, I suppose Mr. Katz can't be called unbiased. Or I. I haven’t read the book, but I did come across this in Saturday’s WSJ:

“Mr Hitchens, as part of his book promo, challenged a panel that included an Orthodox Jew and a Buddhist nun. “I now wish I hadn’t participated,” say Nathan Katz, a professor of religious studies at Florida International University. “he was utterly abusive. It had the intellectual level of the Jerry Springer Show”

Of course, I suppose Mr. Katz can’t be called unbiased.

Or I.

]]> By: Jake http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48615 Jake Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:28:28 +0000 http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48615 Sounds like you'll dig it. Be warned, though, he spends some time rhapsodizing about his socialist days, which adds an interesting sort of former cultist flavor. (Casting no aspersions on our own former cultist anarchist...) Sounds like you’ll dig it.

Be warned, though, he spends some time rhapsodizing about his socialist days, which adds an interesting sort of former cultist flavor. (Casting no aspersions on our own former cultist anarchist…)

]]> By: da kine http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48614 da kine Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:22:03 +0000 http://www.blahstuff.com/oldstuff/2007/06/28/650/the-best-of-the-neo-atheist-crop/#comment-48614 I agree re: Dawkins and his ilk. We fall into the Penn Jillette camp of agnostics/atheists/skeptics, who feel that preaching Atheism like a religion makes it a pseudo-religion. I don't need to push my beliefs on others, even if it is a lack of belief. If someone wants to talk religion, I will, but otherwise, they can have their thing and I have mine. I'm going to check out The Hitch's book. I agree re: Dawkins and his ilk. We fall into the Penn Jillette camp of agnostics/atheists/skeptics, who feel that preaching Atheism like a religion makes it a pseudo-religion. I don’t need to push my beliefs on others, even if it is a lack of belief. If someone wants to talk religion, I will, but otherwise, they can have their thing and I have mine. I’m going to check out The Hitch’s book.

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