Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is Religious Criticism a Left-Wing Thing?
A lot of these channels were originally from people in North America where obviously the right is more associated with religion. It sounds like these people just wanted to critique for critique sake it wasn't really about what the content of the critique wasYeah I think it's about the notion of ideology if you look at traditional left-wing criticism liberal criticism you had a kind of state ideology nationalistic ideology that the liberal left was poking holes in. There seems to have been a switch in the way that the dialect is understood now that the ideologues are now the leftists and it's the right wing that is poking holes in the ideology rather than it being the other way around.
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