[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

[c b]

Voyou voyou1
The problem I have with all these attempts to show that religion is
false isn't that they offend the delicate sensibilities of believers,
but that they seem so boring. It's obvious that, interpreted literally
and evaluated by the norms we use to evaluate most truth claims, the
bible is false (even biblical literalists don't deny this!), so why
write whole books repeating this obvious statement? If people want to
spend their time doing that, it's their time to waste; but I find the
mindset of those who want to do that to be almost as incomprehensible
as the mindset of those who claim the bible to be (in some curious and
never entirely specified sense) true.

^^^^^^^
CB: You  think the vast majority of people who Parenti is trying to
reach  think the bible is false ?

Speaking of the trivial and obvious, how about this ? Parenti didn't
write this book for people like you or Joseph C.  Afterall,  most
people are "dumb" and "dumbasses"  by the "standards" of this list.