Educational Neglect: When Superstition Shackles the Mind

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Religious cultures are often distrustful of science and scientists. They're also often bound to debunked mythologies and bad information. We explore mis-education and the celebration of ignorance in the name of God.

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Links to Jonny Scaramanga's articles on ACE:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2014/09/01/revelations-from-a-former-ace-insider
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2016/09/13/out-among-the-stars-defeating-the-legacy-of-religious-indoctrination

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leavingfundamentalism/2014/08/18/a-readymade-toolkit-for-institutionalised-oppression

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Rash ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.6	I'm going to be in Arizona this coming weekend.
0:47.7	Hope to see you there, Flagstaff on Saturday.
0:50.2	And then in Phoenix on Sunday, in details on those
0:53.6	and all the other tour stops coming up, Denver and Orlando,
0:56.4	Louisville, Charleston, and a whole lot more.
0:58.8	Go to thethinkingatheist.com slash events.
1:03.6	Coming up next week, I'm releasing the audio and video
1:06.0	of the speech I just gave in Toronto.
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