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diff --git a/content/entry/how-i-came-to-atheism.md b/content/entry/how-i-came-to-atheism.md index 0705fa9..6fde9ba 100644 --- a/content/entry/how-i-came-to-atheism.md +++ b/content/entry/how-i-came-to-atheism.md @@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ Through listening to debates and doing my own research, I learned about epistemo > "If there is a god and god is good, then surely god doesn't punish people for doing research to find out the truth about religion." -With that thought, I continued watching debates and studying and researching the arguments. Very shortly after encountering [the New Atheists](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism) (mainly Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens) and listening to what they had to say and the different perspectives from which they argued, I was decidedly an atheist. +With that thought, I continued watching debates and studying and researching the arguments. Very shortly after encountering [the New Atheists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism) (mainly Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens) and listening to what they had to say and the different perspectives from which they argued, I was decidedly an atheist. I didn't decide to become an atheist to avoid the possibility of hell or for some other emotional reason. I wanted to know the truth, no matter where it led me. I reasoned my way into atheism with logic. ## Enter The Skeptic Community -After becoming an atheist, I started following atheists like [Hemant Mehta](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCsgjnUBCB9xbUXQfMg0pd8A?dark_mode=true) (The Friendly Atheist). I also found Matt Dillahunty on [The Atheist Experience](http://www.atheist-experience.com/), a show where religious people call in and try to prove that god exists. I find Matt's [Atheist Debates Project](https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL8U_Qmq9oNY4I2RAT94zWGS3yo7Ma3QKI&dark_mode=true) particularly valuable since it debunks a wide variety of religious irrationality in an organized and thorough way. +After becoming an atheist, I started following atheists like [Hemant Mehta](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCsgjnUBCB9xbUXQfMg0pd8A?dark_mode=true) (The Friendly Atheist). I also found Matt Dillahunty on [The Atheist Experience](https://www.axp.show/), a show where religious people call in and try to prove that god exists. I find Matt's [Atheist Debates Project](https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PL8U_Qmq9oNY4I2RAT94zWGS3yo7Ma3QKI&dark_mode=true) particularly valuable since it debunks a wide variety of religious irrationality in an organized and thorough way. In more recent years, I've been following the work of [Anthony Magnabosco](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCocP40a_UvRkUAPLD5ezLIQ?dark_mode=true), an atheist and street epistemologist. Street epistemology, for those who don't know, is a way to "help people reflect on the quality of their reasoning through civil conversation". If done right, it's a very friendly, non-aggressive means of getting someone to think through their own beliefs. |