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HT to Josh Benton for these two pieces

• Atheist Disillusionment
• People are the Problem

Two comments on these two piece:

1. Where is the connection between atheism and the moral project found in nearly all Western atheist agendas? It is as if they imagine that women’s rights, marriage equality, etc. all somehow spring out of a lack of God. Some atheists repeat the minimalist definition of atheism and loudly state “we just believe there isn’t a god, nothing else”, then why do they all seem to have the same moral agenda?

2. This reminds me of the insight of Luc Ferry of a fundamental change brought to the world by classical Greek thinking, that humanity is hierarchical. Patriarchy, the latest source of blame for the misery of women is of course part and parcel of that world. Ferry works this through.

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