Atheism: class is a distraction

Reading through some of the contributions on class and atheism I am struck by a glaring omission. Brown's opening salvo has been to argue that atheism can be a class thing worn for the status it presumably imparts in certain circles – thus implying that there might not be an intrinsic, intellectual reason for choosing atheism. Nick Spencer shows that there is indeed a correlation between educational level and atheism. In the US this phenomenon is far ... Full Story »

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Julia Willebrand
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by Julia Willebrand - Oct. 15, 2009

No. A great deal of begging the question despite his calls for adhering to a scientific view. And his lumping economic caused terroristic actions, i.e., Israel's occupation of Palestine and biblebelt buy-in to free market propaganda as a result of belief in religion isn't supported by his exposition.

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