neoatheist

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noun

A member of the vocally anti-religious movement that came to prominence in the early 2000s.

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Meanings

nounneoatheist (plural neoatheists)

plural neoatheists

  1. A member of the vocally anti-religious movement that came to prominence in the early 2000s.

    2011, Frank J, Re: All Finnish public 3 IDists are now practically or close to YECs ... Group: talk.origins just denied unguided evolution and attacked strongly on neoatheists

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    A fundamental blind spot that so many of the neoatheist critics of religion share is that they have been unable to imagine an authentic religion that does not operate with certainty as its only common coin ...

    2008, Robert Jones, Progressive & Religious, page 186

    I praise Dawkins' clarity, I rejoice in Dennett's call to study religion scientifically as a natural phenomena, and I admire S. Harris's keen polemical skill. Yet I think these thinkers are all arrogantly out of their depth. These "neo-atheist" authors chiefly use highly selective analogy, anecdote, personal sentiment, and rash generalization...

    2012, Charles Crawford, Dennis Krebs, Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, →ISBN

    2013, The Faces of Satan, They batter believers in religion with smug certainty Group: can.politics, link neoatheist thinkers such as Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, I thought it amazing that he still wanted to learn something new

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