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The Institute for Humanist Studies now has an unbroken record of failing to describe the you-know-what dust-up accurately in its "news" stories. In the topic sentence of his IHS/Humanists.net-hosted article on the Epstein controversy, August E. Brunsman promotes a familiar...
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April 06, 2007 Two for twoThe Institute for Humanist Studies now has an unbroken record of failing to describe the you-know-what dust-up accurately in its "news" stories. In the topic sentence of his IHS/Humanists.net-hosted article on the Epstein controversy, August E. Brunsman promotes a familiar framing of the dispute: Austin Cline, Brian Flemming and others who have a great deal of respect for Dawkins and Harris took strong exception to the notion that fellow non-theists were "taking them on"... Sigh. This is getting so tiresome that I have relegated an explanation for August Brunsman to a footnote*. *Dear August, To point out the obvious: It doesn't matter who uses the brainless term "atheist fundamentalist." When religious people use it, it's stupid. When a humanist uses it, it's stupid. It's not the who, it's the what. And the what is a false characterization that places strong advocates of reason on the side of dogma -- based on no evidence whatsoever. Is this really so hard to grasp? The story isn't that Cline/Flemming/etc. are opposed to criticism from non-theists and also the nature of that criticism, as your article alleges. It is only the nature of that criticism that is our complaint. I don't know how someone could read what Austin Cline and I have written on this and not understand that. I wonder if part of the problem here is that what Epstein did was so obviously stupid and wrong that nobody wants to accurately describe it (or, at least, nobody writing at Humanists.net). Unfortunately, by tiptoeing around Epstein's actual deed, his apologists then cast his opponents in a false light, making them look as if they don't have a good basis for their objections. |