Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/9/07, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings Economists,
> On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > to become a kind of evangelical
> > atheist like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  I'd rather see more leftists follow the
> > path of the late Stephen Jay Gould, who wore his secular worldview
> > with a sense of humor, rather than that of evangelical atheists on a
> > jihad for secularism.
>
> Doyle;
> Ha ha, there is nothing to evangelize about atheism.  It's not a
> unified position.

I doubt that evangelical atheism will ever catch on in the USA beyond
the current book publishing industry fad, but in Europe secularism
with an Islamohobic twist has come to be used as a convenient tool of
social exclusion against immigrants from North Africa and West Asia.
The USA is better than Europe in this respect, but Islamophobia minus
secularism does have an impact on political culture, too, helping the
Bush White House abridge civil liberties and sell its foreign policy a
little easier than without it.
--
Yoshie
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