Susan Blackmore has an unexpected lecture experience at Oxford Royale Academy

[Htom Sirveaux]

50. Ok, now that I've watched the video.

I didn't see any sign of a need to dwell only on the negatives of religion. She gave a whole presentation on memetics without mentioning religion at all! She mentions earrings or wearing glasses a certain way. Those things are not negative.

Regarding religion in her presentation to the students, she could have discussed the meme of feeding the poor, or healing the sick, or the idea that individual human beings have inherent dignity because each of us is made in the image of the very creator of all things. Religion doesn't need an exclusive license on those things to spread them. The "image of God" thing doesn't have to be true to spread according to her description of a meme. As I said originally, it would have made her much more credible.

Instead, she's patting herself on the back in the article that she didn't explicitly pitch the students on deconversion right then and there.