Why Atheists Keep Finding God (in everything) - Alex O’Connor - #1175

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From sometimes a sort of mean debate bro persona into something that's a little bit m maybe softer, more empathetic, more understanding. Yeah. Where do you sort of come into land on like these are the facts and I should just say them in this way versus I can still do that with a degree of like grace and compassion? I get a lot of flack for this.

And I think it's because people uh enjoy seeing someone who Has thought about a view. knows what they think and wants to defend it against against critique. Um especially when it's something that people consider important, like views on the existence of God or ethics or something like that. It's really important to people that there are people who are sort of strongly advocating for those positions. But I think that particularly when it comes to questions about God and questions about consciousness and foundational philosophy.

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