... the thinking herein described (not O'Neill's, the others'):
The New Atheists’ Easter message? ‘Grow up or die’.
The real reason he despises Christianity and Islam (he’s a bit softer on the Jews) is because they propagate stories that present mankind as having been created for some purpose, as having a special role to play on the planet and in history, when in truth, says Maher, mankind is a fuck-up that continually ‘gets shit wrong’ and has ‘spawned so much lunacy and destruction.
On the other hand:
Justin Keating of the Humanist Association of Ireland says, Revelations-style, ‘As never before, the survival of humankind is threatened. The source of the threat is human action [destroying the environment].’
If there's nothing special about humans in the first place, and if they're the principal threat to the planet, what's the big deal if they go out of existence?
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