Comment on How about testing our ideas?

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:39:08 GMT

The bad of New Atheism: Children playing with memetic weapons, with the safety off.

It's good at diagnosing problems with existing institutions, bad at understanding people's non-rational but deeply-rooted needs that are currently satisfied by religion.

It has failed to create even remotely plausible replacement institutions, due to this lack of understanding.

It is fundamentally parochial: it originated from, and continues to narrowmindedly focus on, the internal life of the intellectual 1%, with little understanding or interest in the other 99% of the bell curve.

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