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Atheism and arrogance (view source)
Revision as of 22:50, January 17, 2016
, 22:50, January 17, 2016→Pride of American Atheists leader David Silverman about his substandard book
*[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>
*[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>
Fellow atheist Vlad Chituc wrote at the University of Southern California's ''Religious Dispatches'' about Silverman's book containing inaccurate claims:
Fellow atheist Vlad Chituc wrote about Silverman's book containing 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.
{{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.