News: Aussie Atheists
Interesting The Age newspaper article profiling Australians, moving to a more strident atheism.
The new atheism is bigger, more organised, and much more assertive than ever before. It’s based on the belief that science explains everything we need to know about the world so there’s no need for religion. Its founding texts are by scientist Richard Dawkins and writer Christopher Hitchens, and religion, in their eyes, is not just some harmless illusion, it’s a dangerous, immoral force in society.The adherents of this new atheism are not simply out to proclaim their own existence – they are proselytising, they want to convert the faithful.
Alex McCullie
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