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Atheists Are Better Citizens

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EPR-radar9/03/2013 4:30:23 pm PDT

re: #28 CuriousLurker

You’re welcome. To be honest, I was so steamed that I didn’t notice it either until I went back and read it a second time.

It’s funny how perceptions like this work —- when I first saw the title, I didn’t have a beef with it for the shallow reason that I’m an atheist. It wasn’t hard for me to think of examples on point (e.g., B Fischer et al), and the insulting generalization involved blew right past me. As usual, the hardest errors for me to see are in material that I more or less agree with.

This is the main value I see in intelligent diversity. DIfferent people will have different blind spots, and finding out about these can be educational.