Why the "New Atheism" is just the outcome of historical religiosity

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...and maintains many of its features, including contempt for women and a strong faith in the metaphysical notion of an absolute Truth.

It is absolutely impossible to disguise what in point of fact is made clear by complete will that has taken its direction from the ascetic ideal: this hate of the human, and even more of the animal, and more still of the material, this horror of the senses, of reason itself, this fear of happiness and beauty, this desire to get right away from all illusion, change, growth, death, wishing and even desiring—all this means—let us have the courage to grasp it—a will for Nothingness, a will opposed to life, a repudiation of the most fundamental conditions of life, but it is and remains a will!—and to say at the end that which I said at the beginning—man will wish Nothingness rather than not wish at all.

And also:  now I am inclined to think, after all, that Bataille does set a trap for those who cannot find a recourse other than to dissolve themselves into asceticism.  He does give others of us an alternative, all the same:  debauchery.