re: #287 Gus

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.

It really is an exceptional speech the further I get into it. I think he really gets it. Of course if he were to post those same thoughts on r/atheism or other blogs he’d probably be labeled a concern troll. I don’t think the topic matters, religion politics, or whatever. The mechanics are all the same.