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Hume's anti-evidential stance is the philosophical ancestor of New Atheist ridicule tactics

Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence？ Nah. 00:37:34 – 00:38:35

Mike traces the intellectual lineage from Hume to modern internet skepticism.

The strategy of mocking and ridiculing Christian claims rather than engaging them — associated with Hitchens and the New Atheist movement — mirrors Hume's 1700s instruction to treat miracle testimony as fit for derision rather than argument. Mike treats this as brainwashing-adjacent: it conditions people to reject evidence without thinking.
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Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence？ Nah. @ 00:37:34

2019-05-01

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David Hume Christopher Hitchens Miracles New Atheism Ridicule as strategy
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