![]() ![]() ![]() The so-called “new atheists” of the first decade of the 21 st century – Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins – became well-known because society had changed in the century since Russell, becoming more multicultural, more accepting of alternate ideas, and more influenced by the effects of science and technology, which (unlike religion) truly have changed the world, mostly for the better - and so much more receptive to the revealing of their insights about the archaic effects of religion. These arguments about the existence of God, and the mixed record of religion as a positive or negative force in the world, are not new. I happened to pick it up again today, and thought the essay worth recording and responding to, with some understanding of intellectual advances since this lecture was delivered in 1927. ![]() I first read the book containing this essay in 1979, when I was 23 I was thrilled to find someone so eminent unapologetically spell out the problems with faith and religion that had already becoming obvious to me. This is a famous essay/lecture by one of the 20 th century’s most influential philosophers. ![]()
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