Sharing Two Unbelievers, Against New Atheism and its View of History

This is a Real Case of Christianophobia · Sharing Two Unbelievers, Against New Atheism and its View of History

Nathan Johnstone - New Atheist Bad History
History for Atheists | 30 Jan. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X5bSPXBaB4

what is ironic about them is 29:22 that they they make such a strong claim to be evidentialists and then don't seem to be 29:28 interested in how evidence Works historically um they 29:36 um they think that that that they as you say that that history can be talked about in these very Grand and very large 29:43 scale statements um and that uh evidence and 29:49 evidentialism that they would they would require in a scientific subject is somehow not applicable to the humanities 29:57 and it's a it's a kind of patronizing attitude um you know it it's and it's 30:02 proprietorial it says you know we can use what you do for for what we want we don't have to respect how you do it it's 30:10 it's quite a proprietorial attitude

I don't think one has to show a complete respect for someone else's subject how he does it. But I do certainly try to learn hard sciences in applicable items more than my adversaries try to learn what evidence is in history./HGL

History for Atheists (by Tim O'Neill)
https://historyforatheists.com/

Encyclopedia: Johnstone, Nathan
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/johnstone-nathan

Tim O'Neill is on some matters outside historic research a bit more biassed:

Dawkins 45:55 came to it from years and years of beating his head up against the brick wall of creationism

Between the Evolutionism of Dawkins and the Creationism of Edgar Andrews (still creationist, but no longer Young Earth, last time I checked), I wonder whether it's not Dawkins who's better described as a brick wall./HGL

Nathan Johnstone on the similarity of Communists and New Atheists:

I wrote In the book about people who were religious in the Soviet 50:21 Union and what I was struck by was firstly the the lack of understanding of 50:26 the people that any of the new atheists attempt to have but also the the sort of lack of of a of a sense of empathy you 50:32 know these were people who were told every day that they were not welcome you know um and that you know they were not 50:40 going to be part of the Utopia that was being created in Soviet Russia and the 50:45 new atheists can I think they can empathize with someone who is persecuted 50:52 because of their race or because of their sexuality or because of their gender and yet yet empathizing with 50:58 people who are religious who might be being persecuted because there seems to be a step too far you know there's a 51:04 real unwillingness to extend the humanist principles that they claim to 51:11 have