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5 Sep 2024 15:23:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Great video about open-mindedness  
From: Darren New
Date: 6 Sep 2009 14:34:27
Message: <4aa400b3$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Now maybe you understand better the outspoken-ness of atheists in the USA. 
> 
>   I also understand why they are so prejudiced.

Certainly. The basic assumption most atheists make is that they're either 
talking to the wingnuts here, or they have an audience who understands that 
there are wingnuts here.

> so provocative and irritating. 

Sure. If you're from a reasonable place and you listen to rants against "all 
christians" or whatever, you're certainly going to be more offended than 
intended.

> (It's really refreshing to see level-headed,
> rational, non-aggressive and non-fanatic views on skepticism, like in the
> video in my original post in this thread. Sadly, this kind of video seems
> to be an extremely rare occurrence.)

Probably because it works so poorly. :-) If it worked well, you'd really 
only need one. ;-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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