Comments by "" (@A86) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder"
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@deanlowdon8381 You have to use discernment with ALL texts. Including secular ones. Do you follow the books or teachings of whatever political ideology or alignment you subscribe to blindly? No, you use discernment. You're free to disagree with some of what the founders of your political ideology said or suggested, or what subsequent ideological contributors wrote. The same with religion. That's how many, if not most, religious people treat their holy texts. Most religions even have textual criticism or textual analysis, exegesis, interpretation, etc. Literally thousands of years worth of different religious scholars and leaders disagreeing about interpretation, implementation, authenticity, what to disregard or abide by, etc. Like I said, your understanding seems uniquely like a conservative Evangelical Protestant understanding of scripture or religion. Your mindset would be foreign to a Catholic, for example. The Catholic Church has tens of thousands of pages of different priests and monks arguing about interpretation and their discernment (The Catechism) and Catholics see it as basically co-equal with the Bible.
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@wvu05 This. I find that New Atheists are essentially just **inverse religious fundamentalists**. Just like religious fundamentalists they insist that textual litetalism, textual inerrancy, harsh eschatology, lack of exegesis (because understanding scripture non-litetally is a false interpretation in their minds), fanatical zeal, end-times obsession, and a vilgiantly exclusionary mindset and desire for non-believers to be punished is the only way holy texts can be read or that theology/religion can be believed in "correctly". Just like religious fundamentalists they insist that religious moderates, religious liberals, and religious progressives are intellectually dishonest people misinterpreting the scripture/religion and that religious conservatives/reactionaries are the only true believers or true followers who "correctly" understand it. A telltale sign that an atheist is a New Atheist is their insistence that religious people who aren't fundamentalists or theologically conservative are coping phonies not performing the faith correctly, while crazed fundamentalists are the ones doing it as the founder would want. They also tend to attack people who identify as Agnostic, Ignostic, or "Spiritual But Not Religious". New Atheists think that the only thing you can be is a raving reactionary theist who wants to harm or force nonbelievers into submission, or a hardcore Dawkins or Lawrence Krauss-style strong atheist. They view Agnostics as covert theists or Atheists who are "cowards", and view religious non-fundamentalists as unbelievers or atheists waiting to happen who are in denial.
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