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Default New Atheists: Sensationalist media pimps! - 01-23-2011, 03:35 AM

ABC religion and ethics editor Scott Stephens slices and dices those ridiculous "New Atheists" as though he were the love child of Freddy Krueger and a Cuisinart. Enjoy!

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/01/19/3116506.htm

The poverty of the new atheism
By Scott Stephens
ABC Religion and Ethics | 19 Jan 2011


They just don't make atheists like they used to. The form of divine disbelief popularized today as the "New Atheism" is a far cry from the more robust and morally serious tradition that runs from Xenophanes and Qoheleth - and perhaps even the writer of the Book of Job - reaching its apogee with Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, but still retaining vestiges of its original vitality in the work of Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek and, somewhat differently, Francois Laruelle.

What made the atheist tradition proper so potent was its devotion to the tasks of flushing out the myriad idols, often unperceived, that clutter human society, and dismantling all the malign political, economic and sexual uses which those gods were made to serve.

But there was another aspect of this tradition - frequently overlooked and now almost forgotten - that immunized it against the excesses and indiscretions which will almost certainly consign the "New Atheism" to the status of an early twenty-first century fad, like the recent spate of Hollywood remakes.

There seems to have been an innate sense among atheists that the Promethean quest to topple the gods demands a certain seriousness and humility of any who would undertake it. Hence those atheists worthy of the name often adopted austere, chastened, almost ascetic forms of life - one thinks especially of Nietzsche or Beckett, or even the iconic Lord Asriel of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy - precisely because our disavowed idolatrous attachment manifest in practices and habits and cloying indulgences, and not simply in beliefs (this was Karl Marx's great observation about the "theological" dimension of Capital).

By comparison, the "New Atheists" look like sensationalist media-pimps: smugly self-assured, profligate, unphilosophical and brazenly ahistorical, whose immense popularity says rather more about the illiteracy and moral impoverishment of Western audiences than it does about the relative merits of their arguments.
See, because modern atheists enjoy life instead of being miserable, like Neitzsche (who was a sickly nut job), and because they don't endlessly regurgitate the rantings of their Communist forefather Karl Marx, they are simply a fad and will fade away just as soon as the Tea Party Christians gain complete power.

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