CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION

CHAPTER 22 BAD FAITH: THE NEW ATHEIST SALVATION
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HEBRON, WEST BANK, FEBRUARY 2008
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Mohammed Herbawi and his close friend and soccer buddy Shadi Zghayer

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suicide bombing mission

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Hamas took responsibility

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interview friends and families
Note:LA MISSIONE DI ATRAN

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members of the same Hamas neighborhood soccer team

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neither rich nor poor

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planned to attend, the local Palestine Polytechnic

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She was divorced
Note:LA MAMMA

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our society respects martyrs.”
Note:IL SENTIMENTO DEI VICINI

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“I’m not religious and I respect them.
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right cause,

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“If only I would have known, I am against it, against it.”
Note:SENTIMENTO MAMMA

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“You took your rifle and went. You blew up your belt and burned. So as the son that they killed would rise up again.”
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“People don’t have much trouble finding one another for actions like this.
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THE END OF FAITH AND OTHER PULP FICTION
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terrorism and the Future of Reason,1 Sam Harris,
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tender religious sensibilities of others.
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the destructive nature of religion
Note:CIÒ CHE LAMENTA

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Dan Dennett’s

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Christopher Hitchens’s

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Richard Dawkins’s

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secular moderation toward religion
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I only want to introduce some common misconceptions about suicide bombers
Note:DI COSA È VITTIMA IL NA

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“we can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom,
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(Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dennett) see science at the front line
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Islam in particular, and religion in general.
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Suicide bombers are not only Islamic or religiously motivated.
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Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka,
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secular movement

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most suicide bombings occurred in Lebanon,
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(Syrian Nationalist Party, Lebanese Communist Party, Lebanese Ba’ath Party).

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isn’t much precedent in Islamic tradition
Note:L ISLAM HA APPRESO LA TECNICA DAI LAICI

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the atheist anarchist movement
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parents who would not have done anything in their power to stop their child
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one regularly hears that Spartan and samurai mothers smiled
Note:LUOGO COMUNE

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What are they going to say when first informed of their child’s death? That it was senseless and stupid?
Note:È CHIARO CHE TENDONO A GIUSTIFICARE MA... SOLO DOPO

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in private, “I am happy” or even “I am proud.”
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“Seventy percent of the inmates of France’s jails, for instance, are Muslims. The Muslims of Western Europe are not atheists
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religious people in general, and Muslims in particular, tend to do more terrible things
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Muslims in America tend to be slightly more religious than non-Muslims, but are underrepresented in U.S. prisons
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underemployment, poor schooling, and political marginalization.
Note:COSA SPIEGA IL CARCERE... ALTRO CHE RELIGIONE

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the more someone is exposed to Muslim religious education, the less likely he or she is to enter prison.
Note:FATTO

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In the Encyclopedia of Wars,9 Charles Phillips and Alexander Axelrod survey 1,763 violent conflicts throughout history, of which only 123 (7 percent) were religious.
Note:GUERRE RELIGIOSE

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in recent times,
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I see no evidence that with religion banished, science will reduce violence
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Nor do I see evidence that religion necessarily contributes more to unhappiness

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to lessen social distance within a group
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greater trust of fellow citizens even outside the group
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less educated and poorer a society is, the more religious it tends to be.
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religion is an immature form of human understanding
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materialism is a monumental barrier to spirituality
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Jamaica,
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intellectual creativity and the expansion of human freedoms and opportunities.
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Islam also stops violence.
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there’s no evidence that science education stops terrorism.
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Diego Gambetta,
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Atheism doesn’t stop intolerance:
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Ara Norenzayan

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atheists are just as likely as religious believers to be intolerant of other people’s beliefs
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Steven Weinberg,

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“religion is an insult to human dignity.

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for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”
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evil people to do good things, it takes religion.”
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DAWKINS’S DELUSION: THE SLAVISH MIND
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Dan Dennett dubs the Brights
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studiously avoid science
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slavish gullibility of jihadis,
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do what they do because they really believe what they were taught in their religious schools;
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none of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers or thirty-odd Madrid train-bomb conspirators attended a madrassah,
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madrassahs

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terrorist groups rarely draw from their students
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grown people seek religion because they miss their fathers.
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they slavishly obey any instructions
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None.
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such as Harry Potter
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insidious affect on rationality,

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“About once every hundred years some wiseacre gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale,” wrote C. S. Lewis
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giving children a false impression
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The fantasies did not deceive me; the school stories did.”
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RELIGION ISN’T CHILDISH SCIENCE
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Copernicus,

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earth orbited the sun.
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Galileo Galilei

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Enlightenment unshackled scientific thinking from lingering religious control,

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ILLUMINISMO

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separation was at best a temporary armistice,
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to provide a unified theory of the world
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religious adults have very different mind-sets from those of children,
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concentrating more on the moral dimensions
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Science aims to reveal how facts are reliably coordinated
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Religion, by contrast, is less interested in how the universe has always been than in how our tiny piece of it ought to be,
Note:I NS DOVERI

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From a scientific perspective, human beings are accidental
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But doesn’t religion impede science, and vice versa? Not necessarily.
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Catholic Church acknowledged the factual plausibility of Copernicus, Galileo,

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Pope John Paul II apologized

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“People have known for years that you can have the Earth circle around the sun and still believe in God.”
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THE REALIST ILLUSION
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Science is guided by a faith in reason that always flies ahead of the facts
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the claim by Sam Harris and others “that in ethics, as in physics, there are truths waiting to be discovered,
Note:CIÒ DI CUI DUBITA L AUTORE

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Human rights weren’t discovered, but invented for social engineering
Note:TESI AUTORE

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Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson.
Note:IL CONCETTO DI INDIVIDUO

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Monotheism created the concept of a single humanity, worthy of improvement and salvation.
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Ideas of “self-evident,” “natural,” and “human” rights are anything but inherently self-evident or natural in the history of our species.
Note:TESI AUTORE

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The American and French republics began to render real the fictions
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common both to religious dogmatists and new-atheist
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OVERBLOWING IDEOLOGY

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Harris’s suggestion in The End of Faith that a total war on Islam may be unavoidable.
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cause of the current global wave of terrorism, then?
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bits of all of them,
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Throughout human history, it is commitment to a religious or transcendental dream that ultimately sustains cooperation and competition between large groups,
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kill and die for others who aren’t genetic kin.
Note:EEOISMO E TERRORISMO

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religion has helped to promote tyranny and rebellion against oppression,
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inspire monumental works of creativity and of stunning stupidity,
CREATIVITÀ E OTTUSITÀ