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or like some god believer will asked in your life have you suffer but this been your bias attitude towards god and may answer to that bias can work in both bias something happens to you and bias when something does not happen to
00:00 - Intro 02:33 - Meet Justin Brierley 04:14 - What IS New Atheism? 07:16 - Justin's 'Unbelievable' podcast 14:27 - The moment New Atheism began to unravel 18:34 - "We're actually ALL quite religious deep down - even people who call themselves atheists" 23:14 - "This atheist worldview isn't sustaining me anymore" 29:03 - The conversion of the world's most famous female atheist 35:06 - A word about the spiritual journey of @JordanBPeterson 37:38 - Steve's closing thoughts 39:41 - Next week's guest is...
I think a key aspect of New Atheism is often missing from these discussions. It was a uniquely American phenomenon and its goal was to make "coming out of the closet" as an atheist an act that could be free from shame and guilt. We can now come out of the closet with a lot less distain from our families and communities. New Atheism's mission was largely accomplished and that's why it faded away as a modern movement and reverted to was it was at its core: just an atheism that has been around for thousands of years. I realize Dawkins and Hitchens were from the UK, but their focus was on the US. Justin sees a few signs on busses in the UK and seems to misunderstand the fact that the part of the movement that was seen in the UK was really different than the experience in the US and was on the outer edges of the greater movement. Around a third of people in Great Britain say they are atheists. Even now, that's only 4% (self-identified) in the US. Totally different contexts.
To silence pushy apologists like Brierley, simply challenge them to back up their "God is good" baloney with a list of acts they believe their god would never do to anyone. Purely hypothetical acts which cause so much pain, misery, suffering and grief that, although they believe their "evil Satan" might perpetrate such acts against people, their "good" god _never_ would. Watch as cognitive dissonance short-circuits their brains over this dilemma! 🤣If they can't list anything, it reveals that they believe their god might do anything to anyone, any time for any reason. But that's _not_ good! It also shows that they can't tell their god and devil apart _by their actions._ Conversely, if they list anything, they've admitted that Man _can_ judge God. But this green-lights anyone to note all the horrible biblical slavery, torture and carnage by God's hand and command and _righteously_ judge God (and Jesus via trinitarianism) to be a malicious, malevolent, mass murdering monster.
