The first funny thing is that the New Atheists are repeating arguments that were fresh 300 years ago when Voltaire and Hume were making them, yet seem to think that they are on the cutting edge of intellectual criticism.
The second funny thing is that these people are philosophically illiterate jackasses (see first funny thing), and so are completely unaware that some guy who lived in Kaliningrad blew both sides of this silly debate out of the water in the late 1700s.
--- On Sat, 5/2/09, X <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: X <from_alamut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided*
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009, 12:09 AM
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> I would suggest Terry Eagleton's new book on the New
> Atheists. Here is a link to a review on Salon.com:
>
> http://images.salon.com/books/review/2009/04/28/terry_eagleton/
>
> peace,
> Jim Davis
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> --- On Fri, 5/1/09, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
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> > From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
> > Subject: [lbo-talk] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living
> without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics,
> Secularists, and the Undecided*
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> > Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:22 PM
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