Steve Pinker on faitheism
Closing our religion news coverage for the week, we have Steve Pinker on faitheism. Readers may remember Pinker from this: A truly ethical bioethics should not bog down research in red tape, moratoria, or threats of prosecution based on nebulous but sweeping principles such as “dignity,” “sacredness,” or “social justice.” … Here he is on the dangers of “faitheism” (a Jerry Coyne coinage): The backlash against the New Atheists has given rise to a new consensus among faith-friendly intellectuals, and their counterattack is remarkably consistent across critics with little else in common. The new atheists are too shrill and militant, they say, and just as extreme as the fundamentalists they criticize. They are preaching to the choir, and only driving Read More ›