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[–]CaliforniGinger 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I was raised super ultra fundie Christian and about a decade ago went through a horrendous year long mental breakdown and deconversion process. I cannot over-stress how terrifying it was to look into things more deeply than I was "supposed to," but ironically a preacher who wrote a bunch of fiction books in the 1800s (George MacDonald) was all about how faith is not faith if you don't grapple with doubt, so I grappled. And lost my faith. And won a priceless willingness to challenge my beliefs and societal beliefs that has made my life so much better. I do think we all need awe and wonder in our lives, whether looking through the Hubble or talking to trees or looking at metaconsciousness of ants or experiencing weird phenomena when it seems like an animal can read your thoughts.

[–]-thedarkhorse-[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is why I am so confused by atheists going along with it. They should know better.

[–]CaliforniGinger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, they totally should. I was extremely annoyed by Pharyngula deciding, petulantly in my view, that the way to fight the rampant sexism and bigotry in dudebro atheism was by glossing over actual science facts.

[–]-thedarkhorse-[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you have a link? Can't find it.

[–]CaliforniGinger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can search Pharyngula transgender to see all the articles he's written about the topic. If you're familiar with the ill-fated Atheism + days, that gives a background to his efforts. Still, it's super annoying to see him posting extreme strawman arguments about all opponents of self ID are basically evil right wingers.

[–]-thedarkhorse-[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you, will check it out.