{"id":9820,"date":"2006-10-27T19:36:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/27\/the-new-atheism.html"},"modified":"2006-10-27T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T02:36:52","slug":"the_new_atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/27\/the_new_atheism.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,71985-0.html\" target=\"_blank\">some of the vocal proponents of the New Atheism<\/a> &#8212; the active rejection of religious belief and faith not just as unfounded or erroneous but as <em>dangerous<\/em> to society and humanity.  An interesting read, as someone who &#8212; well, who tends the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/worldview.html\" target=\"_blank\">straddle the line of faith and reason<\/a>, and who finds both comfort and inspiration<br \/>\nmy own beliefs while worrying about the threats of others&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/10\/12090.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of some of the vocal proponents of the New Atheism &#8212; the active rejection of religious belief and faith not just as unfounded or erroneous but as dangerous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45535,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/28\/atheists-are-humans-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":9820,"position":0},"title":"Atheists are humans, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Sep-14 10:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Speaking as a theist, there's a lot that atheism has to teach the faithful: skepticism about accepted teaching, dealing with the conflict between dogma and human knowledge, contention against authority, and understanding where many of the threads of modern faith come from (hint to modern Christians: a lot of it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21232,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/victoria-jackson-is-a-dolt-sing-song-atheist-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":9820,"position":1},"title":"Victoria Jackson is a Dolt (Sing-Song Atheist Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 11-Jun-11 2:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sensuous Curmudgeon wrote about this zany WorldNetDaily article, and then Les commented that it could use a good fisking, but it would be hard to do justice to it ... ... well, who can resist? It's a sweet little opinion piece titled \"Atheists don't have no songs,\" by famed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dolts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dolts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/dolts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tin-foil-hat2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":132426,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/religious-freedom-for-atheists-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":9820,"position":2},"title":"Religious Freedom for Atheists, Too","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Dec-16 11:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm glad to see this 1998 US religious freedom law noted to include atheists and agnostics as well. 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