Dawkins
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Dawkins is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 24, 2023 and December 12, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’m an atheist (Dawkins, Dennett, the whole thing)”; “When I knew you a few years ago, you were a Dawkins-reading atheist”. It most often appears alongside Democrat, Trump, 2024.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 24, 2023
- Last seen: December 12, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Interestingly, I’m an atheist (Dawkins, Dennett, the whole thing) and my wife of thirteen years is an ordained minister and our marriage is solid.
“Why? When I knew you a few years ago, you were a Dawkins-reading atheist.”
“Dawkins makes some good points,” says Nishin. “But I’ve been reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and I think I agree with her more. Now I’m a pragmatist. Religion isn’t about who created the world when. It’s about what kind of ethical and social commitments it takes to run a flourishing society.”