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- May 21, 2023
Half good answer but the truth is that the new atheism movement was either a precursor to literal modern progresivism or the tool that facilitated it, I've been revisiting debates that Dawkins and Hitches had with people like Sir Roger Scruton and similar theistic/conservative philosophers and guess what? The same crowd that followed them in the early 2000s is now lamenting in the comment section that their ideas of "an unimpeded human progress" had led us to the ideological hellhole that we live in, and guess what? Dawkins got gtfoed by the humanist lobby for having the the audacity to critize the logic behind transgenderism, Sam Harris now fell into the oxymoronic stance of "spiritual atheism and meditation helps" , Bill Nye prominent skeptic is now a laughing stock due to his unironically irrational stances on gender and, Pen & Teller? People stopped taking them seriously after everyone realized these two take Ayn Raid ideas as serious business, and Christopher Hitchens is somewhat hard to theorize but my gut feeling tells me that his contrarian nature would have led him to become something approaching to the Youtuber skeptic anti SJW, and the harder truth is that most of his debate tools and rhetoric were literally things he learned from his time as a literal communist that lived on the soviet union, the game was rigged from the start mi dear friend...I'm reminded that Penn Gillette is still a boomer and as a boomer he is clueless about the reality the youth live. He doesn't understand the LGBTQ lobby isn't the we just want to live our lives anymore crowd. It's taken over by I want to burn down church's and turn the kids of people who bullied me in highschool gay and trans to get revenge at the cis society. I think he doesn't want to comprehend that since his son is a troon.