LOL, RWP!!! Maybe that's the reason I invited you here, to just "knock it all down!" (Which you chose not to do at this time, I gather.)
I'm all up for "a caucus of bright FReepers" to deliberate this question. What forum could conduce to that end? That wouldn't end up with the main argument of debate being hauled, kicking and screaming, into the Smokey Back Room -- hardly a serious archive of "serious thought" here, or anywhere else?...
I'm always looking forward to anything new from Dennett. He seems to make sense about a lot of things, often enough. (But I still "lose him" on grounds of logic, reason, experience, world view in the longer run....)
I'm looking forward to anything of his you wish to post here, RWP. (I'm sure I'd find some way to have "fun with it," one way or another....)
Good night, and thanks in advance!
It might. But the alternative is the status quo on FR, which holds that atheism, agnosticism and in fact pretty much anything except some sects of protestant Christianity are incompatible with conservatism. Thanks to Patrick Henry, I found the original Dennett thread, which beautifully exemplified everything Dennett wrote; you can accuse an atheist of virtually any crime you want, up to and including genocide, and get away with it. I'm not willing to surrender conservatism to the bible-bashers, who are newbies to the movement, and tied to the movement largely by political expediency rather than principle.