You must surely acknowledge that it is the
New Atheists that most effectively advocate the ideal of an "Age of Reason" - No?
Of course; you defined your 'Age of Reason' as being one of the tenets of New Atheism.
My point is that actual reasonable people do not advocate for your oppressive AoR; and that so long as there are folk out there like your New Atheists, there can never be a
true age of reason.
What your New Atheists call 'reason' is just '
... a belief that religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises' (
New Atheists).
This isn't reason; it's just stupidity. So long as folk think such crap like this is reasonable there can never be an age of reasonno matter how much they wanna label it as such.
The idea that any theists are advocating such a thing seems a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas.
I am strongly in favor of reason. It's the rehashed prejudices that your New Atheists have wrapped and stamped as 'Reason' that concern me.
Jon
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