Here's what I'd share with Tom at this point if he hadn't blocked me.
#PeterRollins is a brilliant Irish philosopher and pyrotheologian. I've been following his work for several years now and find it fascinating, revelatory, nuanced, unique, and challenging. I haven't watched this whole vid yet, but the first 30min make it worth sharing:
I get kind of worked up about attempts to rob young people of the few interesting things that we really know about nature and the universe. This anti-evolution content is designed as a kind of inoculation against gaining further knowledge on the topic.
It contains neat little counter arguments that prompt kids to stop listening before they hear anything really interesting.
"[Darwin] avoided discussing his views on religion in public, but his private writings (from the Beagle era onwards) show that he was increasingly critical of theology and Biblical literalism, and had many doubts about God, including concerns about the problem of evil. In a letter of 1879, he described himself as an #agnostic rather than an atheist, but stated that belief in evolution is not incompatible with #theism."
Citation: Letter to John Fordyce, 7 May 1879, transcribed at the Darwin Correspondence Project
I was raised atheist, and by most definitions I still am. But what I actually practice is non-dualism.
You can just as well call me a theist and I wouldn't disagree with you.
To me these world views are just two different ways of looking at the same, one thing. Two sides of the same existential coin.
Make no mistake though: Atheism is a religion just like the rest. It's the religion of non-belief, which if practiced puritanically can cloud good judgement.
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