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RE: street epistemology

July 11, 2015 at 10:30 pm

(July 10, 2015 at 3:40 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: If I try to "debate" a religious person away from their religion, am I not committing the same act of disrespect?

I didn't see Boghossian's book as necessarily being a book about how to debate people out of their religion, but more of a book about how to get them to think more deeply about the propositions that they claim to believe. I saw it as more as a way to engage people in conversations about potentially sensitive or inflammatory topics in such a way that they wouldn't immediate shut down or put their defenses up, while at the same time they (and you) end up thinking more deeply about what you are discussing.

If a Christian happened to become an atheist as a result of such a conversation... So be it... Big Grin

Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.

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street epistemology - by drfuzzy - July 10, 2015 at 3:40 pm

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RE: street epistemology - by Clueless Morgan - July 11, 2015 at 10:30 pm

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