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I had to stop listening to Dawkins, he is antitrans and anti Muslim now, and was praising Christianity if we had to choose a religion
So, like most people, he just has a soft spot for the religion he was exposed to most in childhood.
I stopped listening to him because he was super arrogant and condescending and self important, didn't know about the other stuff
Not denying Dawkins is plenty smart about some things but man, I miss Carl Sagan
But enough about Sam Harris
The atheism thing was always a veneer for racism, tbh. The whole New Atheism movement was a way to sell The War on Terror to progressive liberals. Instead of talking about Gog and Magog or whatever, it was about how "Islam is the Mother-Load of bad ideas", and how the backward orientals need to be taught western values.
*motherlode