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Gus12/11/2012 8:08:01 pm PST

re: #271 Killgore Trout

That’s a theory that needs to be more widely adapted. Skeptics, Wingnuts, moonbats, MSNBC, Fox, OWS, Tea Party (Yes, I anticipate the obligatory MBF allegations) are all largely counter productive. It’s all more about preaching to the choir and tribal reinforcement than winning in the market place of ideas.

Politics is more personalized and far more difficult to find common ground. Or I guess it’s a lot more easier to become a dick. Normally I prefer not to be a dick other than my occasional outbursts but even then I control myself. Sometimes I think I can be more of a dick than I actually am. I think I learned that from being a young Catholic.

But I agree with Phil and have agreed with this for some years now. I never understood the necessity to lash out at people for their beliefs. Skepticism is like secularism in many ways. You can be religious and be either or both. You can either be religious or atheist, a conservative or a liberal, yet still think Uri Geller is a con man.