Sad thing is that I don’t think we have the luxury of debating with well informed atheists who have also read Freud and Nietzsche. As also happens with christianity, screams, slogans and hysteria are a much better way of attracting pupils then reason and debate. Atheism started to grow when dumb uninformed people like Dawkins and Hitchens started to obscure real atheists thinkers like Onfray.
I don’t know if we can “go public” and preserve our intellectual history at the same time. It is not easy to summarize millenia of philosophy on a youtube comment.
January 27, 2009 at 5:42 am
Sad thing is that I don’t think we have the luxury of debating with well informed atheists who have also read Freud and Nietzsche.
As also happens with christianity, screams, slogans and hysteria are a much better way of attracting pupils then reason and debate.
Atheism started to grow when dumb uninformed people like Dawkins and Hitchens started to obscure real atheists thinkers like Onfray.
I don’t know if we can “go public” and preserve our intellectual history at the same time.
It is not easy to summarize millenia of philosophy on a youtube comment.