What motivates atheist activists

David Mitchell, Sam Harris, Stephen Woodford · Lecture · 10m· Apr 2020

Arjuna grants that Stephen Woodford's anti-religion activism flows from sincere harm-prevention motives, then turns Woodford's own 'fallacy of division' defence of atheism against communism back on him: if communist atrocities don't indict atheism, religious atrocities don't indict religion — so oppose specific harmful beliefs, not religion wholesale.

atheism · critical thinking · epistemology · logical fallacies · moral philosophy · philosophy of religion · psychology of religion · religion · religious extremism · secularism · theism vs atheism


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