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The Sunday Debate: Atheism is the New Fundamentalism
Intelligence Squared
The Atheists Are the New Fundamentalism
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It's extremely hard indeed to be a fundamentalist non stamp collector. The fact that you don't says nothing else about what you believe and how you behave. There is a certain absurdity in all these debates on this subject because great minds have wrestled with them throughout History. Our opponents tonight claim to speak for atheism They speak with anger and with certainty All those of us who are against fundamentalism should unite against their cause. What is it that we find so distasteful about fundamentalists? It's not that they're stupid some of them are very clever Surely what we find so unattractive about fundamentalism is the attitude that it discloses to the truth and to other people First to the truth
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