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Atheism and arrogance (view source)
Revision as of 18:50, January 17, 2016
, 18:50, January 17, 2016→Pride of American Atheists leader David Silverman about his substandard book
Despite his books many shortcomings which fellow atheist Vlad Chituc pointed out, [[David Silverman]] said of his book ''Fighting God'': "...I am very proud of it as you can tell."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref>
Despite his books many shortcomings which fellow atheist Vlad Chituc pointed out, [[David Silverman]] said of his book ''Fighting God'': "...I am very proud of it as you can tell."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HZ0e9N51Q David Silverman : Fighting God]</ref>
Vlad Chituc wrote at the University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'' about the books intentionally inaccurate claims:
{{cquote|This leads Silverman to make some wildly inaccurate claims. He argues that more than half of Jews and three-quarters of the rapidly growing religiously unaffiliated are atheists. But according to Pew, only 17% of Jews and 33% of the “nones” say they don’t believe in God. If you want to count the “don’t knows” or “others,” that gets to about 20% and 40%, respectively, at best.
These are not small discrepancies, and based on these falsely inflated statistics, Silverman makes startlingly inaccurate claims, like that there are 80 million atheists in the U.S., a full 26% of the country....To make things frustratingly worse, other atheists have been calling Silverman out for falsely inflating the number of atheists for [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/08/07/fact-check-please/ more than four years]. And last year, I specifically asked Silverman if he would stop reporting the stats on “nones” as being representative of atheism, and he [https://twitter.com/MrAtheistPants/status/581206498258325504 told me he would]. Yet here we are.<ref>[http://religiondispatches.org/how-not-to-defend-atheism/ How Not To Defend Atheism] by Vlad Chituc, University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'', 2015</ref>}}
== New Atheist arrogance and drug addiction ==
== New Atheist arrogance and drug addiction ==