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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Richard Dawkins‏Verified account @RichardDawkins Mar 14

      Hate at this pathological level demands explanation beyond the obvious low intelligence. I suggest that Godnuts are secretly unconfident of their beliefs & mortally terrified they might be wrong. This translates into hyper-extreme hate of anyone who credibly boosts their doubts.pic.twitter.com/2DBlX5b9RS

      1,046 replies 3,317 retweets 11,358 likes
    2. Melissa Krawczyk‏ @moolecular Mar 14
      Replying to @RichardDawkins

      Richard, it isn't low intelligence necessarily. You know the power of indoctrination and confirmation bias.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. Melissa Krawczyk‏ @moolecular Mar 14
      Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      This is exactly what I believed, though I don't think I was ever so heartless as to desire it for someone.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4.  🎃Freedom-of-Screech 🦉‏ @ElleWest26 Mar 14
      Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      Depends on which group you are indoctrinated into. My parents are evangelicals. This type of hate was normal when I was growing up🙅🏻😓

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Melissa Krawczyk‏ @moolecular Mar 14
      Replying to @ElleWest26 @RichardDawkins

      I was evangelical Christian too, but I was never taught by my parents to desire the fate for anybody or to gloat about it. I did think it was the way that it was though. And that atheists chose their own fate so that it was fine to use them as an example.

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    6.  🎃Freedom-of-Screech 🦉‏ @ElleWest26 Mar 14
      Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      I was taught to pray that other people meet that fate but my parents believe in “talking in voices” (not sure how to translate), faith healing, that women should serve men & wear dresses & nonsense mostly espoused by televangelists & a small group of far out evangelicals🤦🏻‍♀️

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    7. Melissa Krawczyk‏ @moolecular Mar 14
      Replying to @ElleWest26 @RichardDawkins

      "Speaking in tongues" I suspect. You were taught to pray for people who had "chosen" not to believe to go to Hell?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8.  🎃Freedom-of-Screech 🦉‏ @ElleWest26 Mar 14
      Replying to @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      In prayer sessions we prayed that people be punished or be “taken” to hell for “leading the flock of jesus astray” if I remember correctly. The idea was that these “bad people” were corrupting innocents so we had to pray that they be punished or “struck down” by god. That counts?

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    9. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Mar 14
      Replying to @ElleWest26 @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      Yeah, If I imagine the propositions are really true, that heaven and hell exist and my loved ones really will go to hell and suffer excruciatingly for *eternity* if they don't behave the right way, I'd have a ton of hatred for anyone who tries to lead them toward that.

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    10. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Mar 14
      Replying to @Intrinsic29 @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      If heaven and hell were real and eternal, mortal life on this planet would be incredibly inconsequential in the big picture of our moral decisions. We'd be completely right to weigh it as such and only care about the afterlife. That's why these beliefs are so harmful imo.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 14
      Replying to @Intrinsic29 @moolecular @RichardDawkins

      Precisely. To understand other people's motivations, you have to come at them from the assumption that their beliefs are true. This makes it clear why it is so hard for afterlife believers to leave other people alone.

      11:47 PM - 14 Mar 2018
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29 and

          I couldn't leave people alone when I believed hell was real. Nothing was more important than saving people from it. Imagine you see a blind person about to walk off a cliff but they don't believe the cliff is there? Wouldn't you rugby tackle them in the end?

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29 and

          Imagine they were leading blind people off cliffs? Wouldn't you lock them up for the safety of others? It's why we must tackle the beliefs themselves and not just hope that people can be persuaded to keep them to themselves although many do.

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