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submitted 9 months ago by cmoney@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

In this episode, I speak with Anthony Magnabosco a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International, an educational organization that is committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. Anthony has been involved with Street Epistemology since 2013, and has given dozens of talks and workshops at conferences and events domestically and internationally. Many of his conversations have been uploaded to YouTube and demonstrate how Street Epistemology can be applied to a variety of claims including ones that are spiritual, political, or societal.

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The difference is that those secularists are shitty people in spite of their beliefs not because of them.

We can draw direct correlations between religion and shitty behavior. Rape and slavery are explicitly ok in the Bible.

Show me one "atheist text" that says anything even remotely similar. You can't. There are none. There is no aspect of atheism you can point to and say that thing is bad.

I can point out something horrible nearly every religion has done and is predicted on the belief that that horrible thing is ok when they do it.

You just made a huge false equivalency.

Atheism is not a religion or belief "system". It is laughing at you when you say you believe in a sky genie.

No one is saying atheists are better people or can't be bad people. We are saying religion didn't make is that way. But that is what religion does.

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