That's the funny thing about the atheists whom we might call "evangelical Atheists". Someone like Richard Dawkins spends all his time telling people why they should be atheists, but doesn't have any reason why it's good for society to be an atheist.
I think the truth is worth pursuing for it's own sake; but it puts Dawkins in a pickle when he thinks that knowing the truth will be *worse* for society than believing what he considers to be a falsehood (Christianity)
It's hard to speculate about people's psychology, but I suspect they act that way because that's what they've seen modelled by the loudest voices in the movement (who often also happen to be the least philosophically astute).
Quite logical! 🙂
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That's the funny thing about the atheists whom we might call "evangelical Atheists". Someone like Richard Dawkins spends all his time telling people why they should be atheists, but doesn't have any reason why it's good for society to be an atheist.
I think the truth is worth pursuing for it's own sake; but it puts Dawkins in a pickle when he thinks that knowing the truth will be *worse* for society than believing what he considers to be a falsehood (Christianity)
It isn’t just the militant atheist. A lot of people who are sort of ‘I am an atheist because I grew up atheist’ are still doing this kind of thing.
It's hard to speculate about people's psychology, but I suspect they act that way because that's what they've seen modelled by the loudest voices in the movement (who often also happen to be the least philosophically astute).