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| Esrac 04/11/17 3:18:45 AM #48: | There was a time, in my late teens and early twenties, when I did, but I mellowed out about it in my mid to late twenties. Penn Jillette actually played a role in that when I heard him talk about how people who try to convert nonbelievers are, as tiresome as it can be, being totally good, moral people. Because people trying to convert you are, from their perspective, trying to save you in a literal sense. I believe he compared it to pulling someone from the tracks when you think a train is coming. They're almost morally obligated to at least try. So, I went from scoffing at people who tried to convince me that there's a God to thanking them for their good intentions, even if I didn't agree with them. Between my late teens and late twenties, I consumed a lot of Atheist media. Books, audiobooks, YouTube videos, podcasts, etc. The Atheist Experience, The Thinking Atheist, thunderf00t's Why People Laugh at Creationists, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Massimo Piggliuci, Penn Jillette, Aron Ra, and even a bit of PZ Meyers before the Atheism+ schism. And so on. These days, I've cut back on a lot of that. I still watch some of that content, but lean more toward the science and general skepticism stuff instead if the explicitly Atheist stuff. For example, I don't listen to TTA or TAE anymore, but I do listen to Skeptoid and enjoy a bit of Michael Shermer, Penn Jillette, and James Randi. Now, if I listen to Dawkins it's mostly for his books about evolution, rather than atheism. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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