The New Atheist, Um, Is a New Atheist?

New atheism was an attempt to supply a kind of spirituality via a kind of anti spirituality. It presents itself as this coherent unified worldview and will be, albeit that it's negative in the sense that it's a critique of religion and it's a promotion of Atheism. The new atheism never promotes a kind of worldview, which has politics in it but also a materialist spirituality with its own group of holy men such as Dawkins and Hichins or dentists. Right, there's a delight in the discourse in the process of disillusionment, which I think is very, very, um, captivating to people who wound up following them.

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