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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 31

      I'm thinking of religion vs. atheism these days (long story), and I found this an interesting dialogue between the patron saint of New Atheism and the founder of TED (who apparently was raised evangelical).https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-ted-interview/ …

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 31

      I haven't tuned into Harris into a while, so this is a fleeting impression, but I felt he came off as tone-deaf and reading from scripted arguments. Like many brainy atheists, he enthrones reason as the new deity, and assumes it'll stand in serviceably for Yahweh/God/Allah.

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 31

      @TEDchris conversely, understands the multifaceted role that religion plays in human life, and how it can positively influence human behavior in a way that cerebral arguments cannot. Plus, it can provide stories around which to build a life that materialist capitalism cannot.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 31

      The same atheists who smugly decry 'sky fairies', once they've left the realm of empirical claims (i.e. science), calmly go about their lives believing in collective delusions like 'money' or 'democracy' with faith-like assurance.

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        2. Ryan‏ @hgilkison Oct 31
          Replying to @antoniogm

          This is very Talebian. Out of interest, what is your beef with him?

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 1
          Replying to @hgilkison

          Eh, he gets quantitative finance very wrong IMO. Though I like his more recent stuff.

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        2. Totally a Russian Bot‏ @Offa_time Oct 31
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Not all of us guy. Perhaps you should talk to more of them rather than generalize.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Oct 31
          Replying to @Offa_time

          Note to self: you must speak to *every* follower of every viewpoint before coming to any conclusion, rather than just the vocal and emblematic ones. LMK when you figure out 2 billion Catholics.

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        4. Totally a Russian Bot‏ @Offa_time Oct 31
          Replying to @antoniogm

          I wouldn't generalize about 2 billion Catholics either. 😀

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        1. dǝɔonsʇɹnɔʇǝd ɟǝɯɐlǝ‏ @missingasock Oct 31
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          Spolier: atheists, etc all have the same traits as the religious do. Humans. They create the same systems, "sin" etc that religion does. They have their snake-handlers, faith healers, & televangelist, etc. Nothing is fucking new.

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        2. Gergely Svigruha‏ @gsvigruha Oct 31
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          You should check out the British philosopher John N Gray if you havent. He covered this area extensively and arrived to some similar conclusions about secular delusions and faiths.

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        3. Gergely Svigruha‏ @gsvigruha Oct 31
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          One interesting thing i learnt is new atheism is in a sense a variant of protestant christianity with its obsession about epistemic belief.

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        1. slow ethereal alternative music‏ @thrumthnir Oct 31
          Replying to @antoniogm

          was think about something like this recently: isnt faith(the conviction of something unproven or unprovable) a necessity, if we perceive reality through (1) our nervous system which evolved for specific tasks (2) concepts that are rooted in assertions.

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        1. Michael Potts‏ @michaelpotts101 Oct 31
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          Some of them are embarrassingly literal. Terry Eagleton's "Culture and the Death of God" covers this very well. It's the sentiment that religion is the result of a failure of intellect, which is - paradoxically - a failure of intellect itself.

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        1. John Meredith‏ @TorquilMacneil Oct 31
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          This is an odd comparison. Money is palpably real, God isn't.

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