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Thought it might be interesting to hear how many of us on these boards are of the Atheist, Agnostic, and Skeptic variety. Not trying to dole out flame bait, just curious.
I "came out" as an atheist to a few of my friends at dinner a couple of months ago and was absolutely astounded at just how indignant many of them were, I was literally compared to a child molester for having "lost a cornerstone of human morality". Surprisingly, I lost a lot of friends (many of my friends are pretty conservative, I guess I should have seen it coming) simply by giving an opinion.
That led me to read Dawkins, who is absolutely incredible, and Carl Sagan, who is even more incredible, and a slew of other "godless" thinkers including Sam Harris, Chris Hitchens (brilliant asshole), Ayn Rand (brilliant asshole again) among many others. I have to say, it was a surprisingly transformative moment in my life. I was also surprised at just how badly atheists and agnostics are discriminated against in America.
So, anybody else in the club or did I just post a huge flame pit?
I "came out" as an atheist to a few of my friends at dinner a couple of months ago and was absolutely astounded at just how indignant many of them were, I was literally compared to a child molester for having "lost a cornerstone of human morality". Surprisingly, I lost a lot of friends (many of my friends are pretty conservative, I guess I should have seen it coming) simply by giving an opinion.
That led me to read Dawkins, who is absolutely incredible, and Carl Sagan, who is even more incredible, and a slew of other "godless" thinkers including Sam Harris, Chris Hitchens (brilliant asshole), Ayn Rand (brilliant asshole again) among many others. I have to say, it was a surprisingly transformative moment in my life. I was also surprised at just how badly atheists and agnostics are discriminated against in America.
So, anybody else in the club or did I just post a huge flame pit?
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