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The bartender looks up and says, "What'll it be?" The Theist says, "I'll have a water, uh, actually, make it wine." The Atheist says, "Just a beer for me, I’m not a fan of strong spirits." The Agnostic pauses and says, "I’m not sure…surprise me, I’ll try a few things until I find something legit." 😂 What better day than Christmas to make a dig at religion in all its forms! I don’t know about you, but I love wandering around YouTube for interesting things to watch, and recently I’ve come across a number of videos of Alex O’Connor (Cosmic Skeptic) debating and discussion religion with various folks like Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and more. If you’ve not watched his videos, I highly recommend checking them out! I don’t agree with all of his stances (not a fan of veganism, nor do I believe morality is objective lol, not even close), but he DOES have both a sexy mind and a very sexy voice, and I find his videos oddly soothing, so can’t go wrong there :) But why that channel? Why those videos? For those of you who don’t know, I was raised Mormon, and in the heart of Texas, so I got a double dose of religion growing up (triple dose if you count the Texas obsession with Football…) I went to church almost every Sunday for the first ~21 years of my life, went to seminary every morning for 4 years, served a 2-year Mormon mission, got married (young) in the temple, the whole nine yards. I was intimately familiar with the deepest of the deep Mormon doctrine. I studied biblical Hebrew, and read the OT cover-to-cover multiple times with a Hebrew concordance, and the NT over a dozen times including with Greek concordances. I was once quite the apologist, and could “bible bash” with the best of them… But I was also blinded by indoctrination, suckled from birth on the tit of confirmation bias, and most of my social circle and sense of meaning was rooted in my religion :/ But at a deep level religion never fully sat well with me (football included lol, such a stupid obsession), and so I asked a lot of questions, and struggled with wishy-washy answers like “because the bible says so” and “just have faith.” And so I found myself pushing back more and more over time. In college, I effectively dual majored in philosophy and theology (same as Alex O’Connor), a combo which very quickly made evident the contradictions and logical flaws underpinning religion as a whole. And so, no surprise, as most anyone raised in religion who finds their way out might do (especially someone raised in a very conservative, damn near cult-ish religion), I eventually bounced from theist to atheist. But I found that atheism seemed to suffer from the very same thing religion did…false certainty. Where theists are SURE that god exists and their religion of choice is the right one, atheists are SURE that gods don’t exist and no religion is true. Now some atheists might argue that definition, and say they aren’t sure that a creator doesn’t exist, only that human religions are bullshit and the imaginary sky fairies they worship are sadistic and contradictory and as far from omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient as they could possibly be…fair enough. And this is actually a very important point. As I discussed in my Epistemic Crosstalk post, some words are “loaded” with all sorts of bullshit, attempting to compress a spectrum into a single word-point. So it is with Theist, Atheist, and even good ole door number three I eventually found myself at, Agnostic. So, rather than singular points, let’s look at the spectrum for each label (and let’s call the endpoints Soft, and Hard, for ease of reference): * Theist - ranging from a soft theist who “passively believes in a creator of some sort” (like a Deist or Pantheist) all the way to hard theist who “militantly believes in one specific god and religious structure and everyone else is a heathen.” * Atheist - ranging from a soft atheist who says “I see no firm evidence to support any of the...

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