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skepticscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-08 12:44 PM
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4. I love this piece of crap he throws out
It is hardly news to the intelligent reader that homeopathy is nonsense, creationism is a lie, intercessory prayer has no measurable effect, Uri Geller is a fraud and so on.

Uh, dude...homeopathy is huge business, almost half the country believes in creationism, including a lot of our elected officials, tens of millions of people continue to use intercessory prayer every day as if they think it works fine, and most people nowadays still think Uri Geller bends spoons and starts watches. And these are not all people with IQs of 80.

And I agree about the "New Atheists" label...just more BS to make the commentator seem relevant. Atheism is just as it has always been, a lack of belief in gods. This reviewer, among many others, is unable to distinguish between atheism, anti-theism and old-fashioned critical thinking. The only difference is that atheists have been getting a much higher profile and have been taken much more seriously in the mainstream media during the last 10 years than they had been for a thousand years before that. Atheists and anti-theists aren't shy about expounding their worldview any more, and that scares a lot of people.
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