Monday, September 10, 2007

Hilarious

This is absolutely hilarious, and I wish it were required reading in some circles... (h/t Apostate).

I particularly enjoyed the 'non-fascism is a form of facism' non-sequitor.
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3 comments:

Steel Rat said...

I can only echo Sam Harris:



"Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields are not examples of what happens when people become too critical of unjustified beliefs; to the contrary, these horrors testify to the dangers of not thinking critically enough about specific secular ideologies. Needless to say, a rational argument against religious faith is not an argument for the blind embrace of atheism as a dogma. The problem that the atheist exposes is none other than the problem of dogma itself--of which every religion has more than its fair share. There is no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable."

— Sam Harris An Atheist Manifesto, Dec 7, 2005

The reviewer is simply trying to divert blame from fascism by saying "but look what non-fascists do!!". That's like political advertisements which simply say all the bad things the opposition has done without uplifting their own candidate.

September 10, 2007 at 12:37 PM
DBB said...

Yeah, that is what the reviewer is doing - though it is tongue-in-cheek and is really a biting indictment of theists and all of their reviews of Dawkins.

September 10, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Steel Rat said...

It's tongue-in-cheek? I only skimmed it, so I guessed I missed the nuance.

September 10, 2007 at 4:08 PM

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