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Pantheists (nietzche, schoepenhaur, mackie) or deists (mill) or agnostics (sartre, Foucault), no atheists among them (with the exception of Peter singer who doesn't qualify as a "great thinker"). Reappropriating great deistic or pantheistic thinkers as "atheists" when they were no such thing is a common mistake of the New Atheists. Thank you for exposing your like of familiarity with their work! I can now safely hold your opinion in contempt.
Haha are you kidding me? Please give me quotes from the aforementioned philosophers that show their explicit pantheism / deism - not some quote you think can be construed as such (I can feel a semantical argument coming). And yes, Singer is qualified as a "great thinker" considering his position at Princeton, the work he has done, his reverance among peers, and his being named one of Australia's top ten intellectuals.