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The idea is that people are using the results of a field to justify its axioms. Interesting observation. You can see why it comes about though. It's not like p

The idea is that people are using the results of a field to justify its axioms. Interesting observation. You can see why it comes about though. It's not like people are going out of there way to be dumb :) They are fed a bunch of triumphalism too. And people are easily misled. Once science starts providing a lot of answers about the universe and also once it starts giving us comforts and toys it's hard not to extrapolate. Modern atheism is not just a fad for dumb people. That's unfair. Don't forget how hostile religion was to individual atheists. We are living in a comparatively secular time and atheism is in the air. To be fair, when kids are told about Santa Claus they believe that too. I tell my kid that I believe there is no God and that organized religion is not the best way to spiritually develop yourself. You get dumb people everywhere. Socially it's a _great_ thing in my opinion. One less excuse to blow each other up. Now all we have to do is to dislodge the nation-state concept, that's going to be tricky. I'm curious. Are you a postmodernist? :) How do you think the modernist project crashed and burned? I think modernism as a coherent ideology was never all that pervasive and also was very lumpy (not evely distributed).

Alex3917 16y ago
"Don't forget how hostile religion was to individual atheists." That's one of the reasons why I support the movement, but that doesn't make it correct. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with atheism. That being said, I think Dawkins is kind of dumb, and unfortunately he's the face of the modern movement and the one that everyone cites. "How do you think the modernist project crashed and burned?" The eugenics movement and the holocaust. "Are you a postmodernist?" I haven't read enough postmodernist lit to feel comfortable putting myself in that camp, though certainly many of my critiques of modernity are along the same lines.

Alex3917 16y ago

"Don't forget how hostile religion was to individual atheists." That's one of the reasons why I support the movement, but that doesn't make it correct. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with atheism. That being said, I think Dawkins is kind of dumb, and unfortunately he's the face of the modern movement and the one that everyone cites. "How do you think the modernist project crashed and burned?" The eugenics movement and the holocaust. "Are you a postmodernist?" I haven't read enough postmodernist lit to feel comfortable putting myself in that camp, though certainly many of my critiques of modernity are along the same lines.