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''See also:'' [[New Atheism, dogmatism and Jonathon Haidt's study]]

''See also:'' [[New Atheism, dogmatism and Jonathon Haidt's study]]

[[New Atheism]] is a contemporary form of [[militant atheism]]. Using special text analysis software, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that new atheists very often wrote in dogmatic terms in their major works using words such as  “always,” “never,” “certainly,” “every,” and “undeniable.”<ref>[http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10 Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind] by JONATHAN HAIDT, February 3, 2014 8:36 pm</ref>  Of the 75,000 words in Sam Harris's ''The End of Faith'', 2.24% of them connote or are associated with certainty.<ref>[http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10 Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind] by JONATHAN HAIDT, February 3, 2014 8:36 pm</ref>   

[[New Atheism]] is a contemporary form of [[militant atheism]].  

 

Using special text analysis software, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that new atheists very often wrote in dogmatic terms in their major works using words such as  “always,” “never,” “certainly,” “every,” and “undeniable.”<ref>[http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10 Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind] by JONATHAN HAIDT, February 3, 2014 8:36 pm</ref>  Of the 75,000 words in new atheist Sam Harris' ''The End of Faith'', 2.24% of them connote or are associated with certainty.<ref>[http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10 Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind] by JONATHAN HAIDT, February 3, 2014 8:36 pm</ref>   

Jonathon Haidt wrote in his article ''Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind'' which was posted at the [[Evolution]] Institute website: "I am opposed to dogmatism. I am skeptical of each person’s individual powers of reasoning, and I’m even more skeptical of the reasoning of groups of activists, hyper-partisans, and other righteous reformers who would remake society according to their own reasoned (or revealed) vision."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150618131552/https://evolution-institute.org/article/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10/?source=tvol ''Why Sam Harris is unlikely to change his mind''] by Jonathon Haidt, Evolution Institute website</ref>

Jonathon Haidt wrote in his article ''Why Sam Harris is Unlikely to Change his Mind'' which was posted at the [[Evolution]] Institute website: "I am opposed to dogmatism. I am skeptical of each person’s individual powers of reasoning, and I’m even more skeptical of the reasoning of groups of activists, hyper-partisans, and other righteous reformers who would remake society according to their own reasoned (or revealed) vision."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150618131552/https://evolution-institute.org/article/why-sam-harris-is-unlikely-to-change-his-mind10/?source=tvol ''Why Sam Harris is unlikely to change his mind''] by Jonathon Haidt, Evolution Institute website</ref>