One of the steps that are performed to discredit New Atheism has been to point out [seemingly-]atheist so-called critiques of New Atheism. Michael Ruse’s supposed critique has been an exemplary miniature of this strategy.
*Conventionally*, thilosophers (note: thilosophy is a theology in the ‘clothing’ of philosophy) has successfully made the god delusion seem in the scope of mere philosophy for decades and one of the features of the New Atheist Paradigm has been to spread demanding empirical/scientific evidence/demonstration of god. And since this step’s constitution of a lethal blow to the Ponzi Scheme of thilosophers is foreseen by the thilosophers, all thilosophers united in a chorus bash New Atheism. How is this a blow?
If you can keep the god delusion a topic of philosophy only and dictate that this disputation has to be interested in by all, you can earn money by selling thilosophy. For example, only by that way a theist thilosopher markets his/her book titled “The Ontological Manipulation in favour of the god delusion” and only by that way a seemingly-atheist thilosopher can market his book titled “A Rebuttal to the Ontological Manipulation in favour of the god delusion“. This cycle goes on: theist responds (and sells books), then in turn the other side responds (and sells books). It is done by thilosophers In all fields of philosophy – morality, consciousness, mathematics, cosmology etc. Both sides earn money by maintaining this illusory dictation named god: Philosophically, the idea of god is not even decent, the god disputation is sound financially: the god disputation generates money for thilosophers and that is why thilosophers force this disputation to remain alive. Thanks to this forced god discussion, philosophers can earn money by selling their mere thoughts.
And that is where the lethal blow of New Atheism (at the same time, of Positivism) comes: If it becomes known that there is nothing wrong with asking empirical evidence for god, the disputation will be settled down (at least temporarily): you can demonstrate your assertion, people accept it – you fail to demonstrate your assertion, people reject it. Full Stop. Then, people will no longer feel they have to buy, read and research fantasies of thilosophers – people won’t be buying abstract mere fantasies of thilosophers and all those thilosophers will go bankrupt. That is why all thilosophers, let they be a theist or seemingly-atheist, bash New Atheism.
As New Atheism spreads, people won’t be fool enough to be fooled into being persuaded that they need to spend time, money and energy for useless questions like “does god exist? is the argument from morality sound? what is the nature of nature? what is the nature of time?” – the questions so-called philosophy has failed to settle down in 2500 years.
If you want to read more about baseless, urban-legend repetitions of neotheists on New Atheism being sciencism, read the following: https://new-atheism.org/2022/12/23/new-theist-hoaxes-1-new-atheists-are-sciencist/
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