Daniel Dennett

From Daniel Dennett's obituary in today's NY Times:

An outspoken atheist, he at times seemed to denigrate religion. “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion,” he said in a 2013 interview with The New York Times.

According to Mr. Dennett, the human mind is no more than a brain operating as a series of algorithmic functions, akin to a computer. To believe otherwise is “profoundly naïve and anti-scientific,” he told The Times...

Rob's comment:

"Seemed"? That's pseudo-objectivity, since Dennett made it clear he was an atheist. Maybe you can be an atheist without "denigrating religion," but how much intellectual respect should religion get from atheists? None, actually.