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Date/Time 11 Jul 2014 9:52:26pm
Ah, so only if atheists are as po-faced and "ascetic" as the righteous can they be taken seriously by yourself?

Childish, Scott.

I might as well conflate all religion with the glitz and glamour of Hillsong or Benny Hinn as an a counter-example of the intellectual vapidity which you accuse atheism of.

Your cristism that New Atheism "fail[s] to advocate forms of virtuous community" is also a furphy. Atheism is diverse, from Libertarians like Shermer to classic liberals like PZ Myers or weird liberal/neocon hybrids like Hitchens. Each have their own views about what constitutes a virtuous community, but you appear to be claiming that atheists wouldn't know what a virtous community was if you smacked them in the face with it.

Funnily enough, the religious also differ in their interpretation
of "virtuous communities" so markedly as to make their religion's tenets a bolt-on to their preexisting views.

You need to take more time constructing your next strawman, Scott.