In Dawkins\u2019s grand vision the world faced a dualistic split between the party of enlightened liberal atheism and backward authoritarian theism. His call was for a public movement of atheists to rally and mobilize into an open political bloc against religion. This suggested that the War on Terror should more rightly be reconceived as a War on Religion. In this way, scientific liberalism became for Dawkins a way to crusade against multiculturalism in favor of a liberal, scientific monoculture. Once religion had withered away and disappeared, humans would be free to enjoy freedom defined not as serious religious or spiritual pluralism, but as exercising various banal market freedoms.<\/p>\n
Dawkins never seriously grappled with the tension between his avowals of the triumph of liberalism and his decidedly illiberal views on the religions constituting nearly every traditional human culture. Instead, for Dawkins the advent of a liberal, materialist atheism would mean a decline in world violence and a rise in social harmony. After all, Dawkins noted, \u201cindividual atheists may do evil things\u201d but \u201cthey don\u2019t do evil things in the name of atheism\u201d and thus no war had been \u201cfought in the name of atheism.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n In other words, a liberal, atheist perpetual peace was on the horizon. At the same time the pages of The God Delusion<\/em> expressed a unique, implicit justification for the War on Terror being waged all around Dawkins as he wrote. While he had believed he was popularizing the Darwinian science of memes, he had in fact joined in the construction of a culture for his fellow humans to inhabit. This was the varied scientistic culture of the War on Terror\u2014truly a house with many rooms in it.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scientism and Civilizational Rallying: Dawkins and the New Atheists — Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) October 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n
by Jason Blakelyhttps:\/\/t.co\/SYrPvQr3ps<\/a><\/p>\n