This was always going to be Richard Dawkins’ path. Over the past few years he’s really leaned into it though and now he knows where to get for his toast.
A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian” to show that he was against the Ramadamification of Christmas in Br*tain.
It was never about atheism, science, rationality, or enlightenment values. It was about otherizing non-white (edit: and non-cis people) people in Europe and “The West.” It’s why the new atheists got popular after 9/11 and why nobody blinked when people like Sam Harris were going around calling for nuclear first strikes against “the Muslim world.”
This was always going to be Richard Dawkins’ path. Over the past few years he’s really leaned into it though and now he knows where to get
for his toast.
A few months ago Dawkins was calling himself “culturally Christian” to show that he was against the Ramadamification of Christmas in Br*tain.
It was never about atheism, science, rationality, or enlightenment values. It was about otherizing non-white (edit: and non-cis people) people in Europe and “The West.” It’s why the new atheists got popular after 9/11 and why nobody blinked when people like Sam Harris were going around calling for nuclear first strikes against “the Muslim world.”
In hindsight it's pretty obviously a movement to divorce white supremacy from anti intellectualism
So basically just English academia for the last 250 years
Hitchens was doing that over ten years ago lol