Ape+lust wrote:And Peez is a lying shitbag right out the gate. He says the original impetus for New Atheism had an unreasonable fixation on Islam, particularly from Sam Harris, and that there was a "racial bias" to it. He calls it New Atheism's original sin.
Yeah Peez, that's why Harris' followup was called Letter to a Christian Nation. He sure couldn't hold a fixation for very long. And as I've said before, the original stuff from Harris that churned Peez's grits was written in 2004, but Peez didn't go full GRRAAR on him until after the 2011 schism. That's a long stretch of latitude for a fucking racist.
Yup. New Atheism was all about Christianity, so much that the Christians called it persecution. Dawkins was all about Creationism, Harris all about the influence of the Religious Right in US politics, Hitchens wrote a book about Mother Theresa, Dennett clashed with Christian religious apologists.
As for islam, here's a few choice quotes from the Big Peeze himself:
PZ Myers wrote:Atheists don’t like Islam. We also don’t like Catholicism, Episcopalianism, or whatever jelly-like dribble Karen Armstrong is peddling today. But I would still say that Islam as a religion is nastier and more barbaric than, say, Anglicanism. The Anglicans do not have as a point of doctrine that it is commendable to order the execution of writers or webcomic artists, nor that a reasonable punishment for adultery is to stone the woman to death. That is not islamophobia: that is recognizing the primitive and cruel realities of a particularly vile religion, in the same way that we can condemn Catholicism for its evil policies towards women and its sheltering of pedophile priests. We can place various cults on a relatively objective scale of repugnance for their attitudes towards human rights, education, equality, honesty, etc., and on civil liberties, you know, that stuff we liberals are supposed to care about, Islam as a whole is damnably bad.
Myers again wrote:“Religion of Peace,” my ass; Islam is the religion of ignorance and hate.
The boy wonder from Morris, Minnesota wrote:Islam is a weakling’s religion. After all, some Muslims fall apart into frightened hysterics when someone draws a cartoon
The Lying Atheist wrote:Strip away the fear-mongering and hatred from Islam, and it would still be a religion of ignorance and delusions.
Mr. I Am More Moral Than You wrote:We live in a world where some Muslims will kill random people if someone insults their magic, holy book.
Informing me that the Muslims are genuinely and sincerely and deeply offended is not informative — contrary to the suggestion that I must have an empathy deficit to be unaware of that, I know that and appreciate the fact that their feelings are hurt and they are angry and outraged. My point is that I don’t care, and neither should anyone else.
Islam … seems to be even more narrow and provincial than other religions in lacking any awareness of the fact that the majority of the people on the planet do not hold their beliefs in any great reverence, and that they don’t get to respond by demanding that we treat their superstitions as sacred
Mr. I Think Sam Harris is A Big Fat Racist wrote:In Iraq, women who violate “Islamic teachings” are tortured and murdered. The “Islamic teachings” that are so important that violators must be tortured and beheaded involve wearing a headscarf.
The uniform application of secular law is what a civilized society demands, not a patchwork of piecemeal laws which apply differently to different people, and especially not the corrupting insanity of irrational, hateful, vile nonsense like Islam.
'nuff said. Myers is turning more and more into CJ Werleman, retconning his own focus on islam to appear more morally righteous before his SocJus friends.
