The folly of the new atheists is typified by the remark from Sam Harris that the real danger lies in the religious moderates. They, he says, are the ones who give religion a good name; they are the people who lend credibility to the incredible. Religious moderation distracts us from the one truth of which he is unshakeably convinced, namely that that the very ideal of religious tolerance... is one of the principal forces driving us toward the abyss (quote from The End of Faith). The new atheism thus combines dualism (the scientific children of light versus the religious children of darkness), talk of apocalypse (the abyss) and the belief that its adherents are in sole possession of the truth, Isaiah Berlins definition of a fanatic. Jonathan Sacks, The Great Partnership
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:10:42 +0000
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