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

[Jeffrey Fisher]

This is a good question. The thing is that they are, at least seemingly, v
hot right now. Everybody knows Dawkins and Dennett and Harris and Hitchens.
I just with Dawkins would go back to writing stuff like "River Out of Eden."

I suppose, thinking about what could possible be interesting about it all,
it might just be that they're at some level forcing (especially leftist)
intellectuals to come to grips with their attitudes toward religion. Maybe
that doesn't matter, either, but maybe it does.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:25 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> what's at stake? who cares about new atheism? why are you reading their
> stuff. what in the world could it possibly matter what they have to say.