(November 19, 2018 at 12:51 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(November 18, 2018 at 11:22 pm)Fireball Wrote: The only time I've ever seen an atheist try to convince a religious person to "convert" is on the internet, when they argued against the ardent preaching and threats of the non-existent "hell". I'll further comment that I consider Dante's "Inferno" to be an early example of fiction that was taken up and run with by the "Catholic Football League".The amount of shame that should be heaped upon the behavior of the RCC since its inception can't possibly exceed the amount of grief that said institution has caused. Talk about high crimes against humanity.
There is the well known example of street epistemology.
One of the prime tenets of street epistemology is that you don't go into with the intent to convert someone. It is, rather, an exercise in making people confront and define the source of their knowledge. I'm not sure this is the same
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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