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struggle4progress

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17. Unless some good evidence emerges otherwise, I find no reason to believe

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 09:46 PM

Nov 2015

that the proportion of wackos among atheists differs materially from the proportion of wackos in the general population

As a trained mathematician, of course, I should very much like to believe that habitual rational thought might protect us from mental infirmity, but the evidence unfortunately does not seem to support any such hope: there are plenty enough cases of good rational thinkers experiencing some mental collapse

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So where is our usual gang of apologists skepticscott Nov 2015 #1

Ah, but you just made the obvious mistake: it's 'political' Yorktown Nov 2015 #2

The rather dim folks skepticscott Nov 2015 #10

"trying to score points off a tragedy" is a nice way to turn the table Yorktown Nov 2015 #13

Results Cartoonist Nov 2015 #15

Thank you! skepticscott Nov 2015 #18

Clearly Religion had nothing to do with this. AtheistCrusader Nov 2015 #3

Yea. demosincebirth Nov 2015 #4

Religion is so misunderstood (and denigrated) Yorktown Nov 2015 #7

Yeah, it's just a land grab skepticscott Nov 2015 #11

There seems to be no shortage of fringe nitwits in our world struggle4progress Nov 2015 #5

yes. Many of them have strong beliefs in god. Yorktown Nov 2015 #6

Funny thing is how most of them are religious. cleanhippie Nov 2015 #9

Since a majority of folk seem to be religious, one should also expect struggle4progress Nov 2015 #14

So where are all the atheist whackos? Cartoonist Nov 2015 #16

Unless some good evidence emerges otherwise, I find no reason to believe struggle4progress Nov 2015 #17

So where are all these skepticscott Nov 2015 #19

Oh, NOW you can't figure out a search engine? Convenient. AtheistCrusader Nov 2015 #21

btw, live coverage Yorktown Nov 2015 #8

Something needs to be pointed out here jmowreader Nov 2015 #12

the ONLY reason this isn't more widespread in the US, AlbertCat Nov 2015 #20