Also, I'm prepared to defend the position that abandoning religion for secularism is a mark of progress. Is this problematic now? Tough.https://twitter.com/IonaItalia/status/922850126032396289 …
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We need to guard against this'You think your ideas are better than mine so you're intolerant/a bigot.' shit.
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We should encourage people to evaluate ideas thoughtfully with the intention of picking the best ones & rejecting the rest.
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'You think your own ideas are best!' should not be a criticism. This just means you have thought about your ideas & have some committed ones
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The alternatives are 'Think all ideas are equally good' or 'choose which ideas to accept on some criteria other than them being the best.'
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But isn't this the core issue w. faith? Accepting a set of ideas as a matter of belief,—unchallengeable by definition—rather than evidence?
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