Skeptics I no longer have any respect for.

[Tempus]

I'm glad to see this kind of thread rather than the mindless praising of high profile atheists simply because they're "one of us". I used to greatly respect the opinions of Dawkins, Hitchens, etc, which I no longer do when it comes to matters of philosophy or theology. The reason I used to respect their opinions was because I knew nothing about religion or philosophy at the time. Dawkin's view on agnosticism (at the time of The God Delusion), for example, was extremely flawed. This doesn't invalidate his other points of course - each point should stand on its own merits. The thing is this was a BIG chapter one error. Definition of terms should be cleared up before you even -start- writing. A lot of atheists fail to dig deeper than Dawkins or Hitchens and thus end up perpetuating the same mistakes they made. Don't get me wrong - I like the guys, but they're not who you go to when you want to learn about philosophy or religion.

The people that really helped me to inform myself were the atheist Youtube community. After a lot of reading and listening I found the best users on Youtube (regarding skepticism, reason, etc) to be: TheraminTrees, QualiaSoup and Evid3nc3. All three have very lucid and accessible videos. Also, TrustingDoubt recently did an interesting series titled "God's Emotions" which I would recommend - despite realising how absurd the Christian god was for a long time I'd never thought of her observations before. ContraPoints is another cool user although his videos often don't relate specifically to religion.

Popular atheist channels on Youtube I'm no longer fond of are Thunderf00t, Pat Condell and TheAmazingAtheist.