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

Caplan su Hitch

1. #Hitchens' thought in a nutshell: "When my mood changes, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

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2. jamie martin ‏@jamieamartin1  14 h14 ore fa

   @bryan_caplan what on earth are you on about? So many principles - atheism, freedom of speech, minority rights etc were constant for him

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3. jamie martin ‏@jamieamartin1  14 h14 ore fa

   @bryan_caplan Hitchens is a giant. Fought ferociously for those principles and for those suffering. Plenty of former Marxists about

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Bryan Caplan‏@bryan_caplan

.@jamieamartin1 Hitch spent whole life "fighting ferociously," when he should have been reasoning calmly. Often wrong but never in doubt.

F.A. Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Szasz, and Timothy Leary: 45 Years of Reason Magazine Interviews - Vol. I (English Edition)

Free Radical  Christopher Hitchen

• Siparietto divenuto un classico. his contretemps with Charlton Heston during CNN’s live coverage of the Gulf War. Hitchens insisted that Heston list what countries have borders with Iraq. After Heston flubbed the answer, he upbraided the journalist for “taking up valuable network time giving a high-school geography lesson.” To which Hitchens replied: “Oh, keep your hairpiece on.”
• In books such as The Missionary Position... he has crafted thoughtful and provocative extended indictments of Mother Teresa,
• Il moralista. Hitchens’ willingness to put moral principles before political alliances has earned him the wrath of ideological compatriots
• Bastiancontrario. Hitchens’ newest book is Letters to a Young Contrarian: The Art of Mentoring (Basic Books), in which he exhorts youth to remain both principled and oppositional, freethinkers in the best Enlightenment tradition.
• Hitchens has become increasingly interested in the libertarian critique of state power and its defense of individual liberty.
• I forget who it was who said that generation — age group, in other words — is the most debased form of solidarity.
• Antistatalismo giovanile. The state had presented itself to [my fellow protestors and me], particularly through the Vietnam War, in the character of a liar and a murderer. If, at a young age, you are able to see your own government in that character, it powerfully conditions the rest of your life.
• Oggi. I am much more inclined to stress those issues of individual liberty than I would have been then. And to see that they do possess, with a capital H and a capital I, Historical Importance, the very things that one thought one was looking for.
• Critica al libertarismo. What is the libertarian take, for example, on Bosnia or Palestine? There’s also something faintly ahistorical about the libertarian worldview... I can’t — and this may be a limit on my own imagination or education — picture a libertarian analysis of 1848 or 1914.
• I’d say that libertarianism often feels like an optional philosophy for citizens in societies or cultures that are already developed or prosperous or stable.
• The first political issue on which I’d ever decided to take a stand was when I was in my teens and before I’d become a socialist. It was the question of capital punishment. A large part of my outrage toward capital punishment was exactly the feeling that it was arrogating too much power to the government.
• 1929 e  la maledizione del breve termine. Right away, one’s in an argument, and there’s really nothing to do with utopia at all. And then temporary expedients become dogma very quickly — especially if they seem to work...
• Paternalismo. Then there’s the question of whether or not people can be made by government to behave better... a big experience, and this gets us a bit nearer the core of it, a very big influence on a number of people my age was the American civil rights movement, and the moral grandeur of that and also the astonishing speed and exclusiveness of its success. A lot of that did involve asking the government to condition people’s behavior,
• In my memory, the demand of the student radical was for the university to stop behaving as if it was my parent, in loco parentis... Now you go to campus and student activists are continuously demanding more supervision
• I certainly wish I wasn’t a smoker and wish I could give it up. But I’m damned if I’ll be treated how smokers are now being treated by not just the government, but the government ventriloquizing the majority... There’s something essentially un-American in the idea that I could not now open a bar in San Francisco that says, “Smokers Welcome.”
• war against pleasure.
• The War on Drugs is an attempt by force, by the state, at mass behavior modification. Among other things, it is a denial of medical rights, and certainly a denial of all civil and political rights. It involves a collusion with the most gruesome possible allies in the Third World... One reason the War on Drugs goes on in defiance of all reason is that it has created an enormous clientele of people who in one way or another depend upon it for their careers or for their jobs.
• I’d been made aware by someone in the Clinton administration of what I thought was criminal activity. At any rate, the administration engaged in extraordinarily reprehensible activity by way of intimidating female witnesses in an important case. I decided that I would be obstructing justice if I’d kept the evidence to myself. That led to me being denounced in The Nation as the equivalent of a McCarthyite
• In Letters to a Young Contrarian, you talk about how it was libertarians — specifically Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan — who did the most to end the draft
• No global. In a way I should have been pleased to see that, and I suppose in some small way I was, but a lot of this did seem to me to be a protest against modernity, and to have a very conservative twinge, in the sense of being reactionary.
• Sinistra arretrata. The Seattle protesters, I suppose you could say, in some ways came from the left. You couldn’t say they came from the right, although a hysterical aversion to world government and internationalism
• Il paradosso: You’ve called yourself a socialist living in a time when capitalism is more revolutionary.
• The thing I’ve often tried to point out to people from the early days of the Thatcher revolution in Britain was that the political consensus had been broken, and from the right. The revolutionary, radical forces in British life were being led by the conservatives.
• I was a member of the Labour Party, I wasn’t going to vote for it. I couldn’t bring myself to vote conservative. That’s purely visceral. It was nothing to do with my mind, really. I just couldn’t physically do it.
• Marx’s original insight about capitalism was that it was the most revolutionary and creative force ever to appear in human history...  Marx and Engels thought that America was the great country of freedom and revolution and Russia was the great country of tyranny and backwardness.

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