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Originally Posted by peter12
I really like Old Hawkings a lot. He's a pretty depressing example of an atheist though. In fact, most of the New Atheists are just a bunch of wheezy liberal secularists not even deserving of the moniker "humanist." Hawkings believes that humanity's only chance for survival is to colonize space. Not very optimistic.
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Please clarify: why are the new atheists not "deserving" of the moniker "humanist"? How does one become deserving of this label? Perhaps you find them depressing in large part because they do not share your own sense of purpose? This seems to come up a lot in your posts, and it strikes me as unnecessarily axiomatic.