Comments on: Ironies: “Free-thinker” http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/ Dim Reflections On God Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:57:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: An Atheist on the Ironies of ‘Skepticism’ | Through A Glass, Dimly http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/comment-page-1/#comment-6499 An Atheist on the Ironies of ‘Skepticism’ | Through A Glass, Dimly Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:07:26 +0000 http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/#comment-6499 [...] a follow-up on my brief entry about the irony of the term “free-thinker”, here’s an article from an atheist lamenting the credulity of so-called “critical, [...] ... a follow-up on my brief entry about the irony of the term “free-thinker”, here’s an article from an atheist lamenting the credulity of so-called “critical, ...

]]> By: Bram Neerhof http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/comment-page-1/#comment-3609 Bram Neerhof Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:26:14 +0000 http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/#comment-3609 Maybe we should use this label for those who keep on trying to unmask unclear language and vague labelling. Free-thinkers, get to the core! Maybe we should use this label for those who keep on trying to unmask unclear language and vague labelling. Free-thinkers, get to the core!

]]> By: Tim http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/comment-page-1/#comment-3587 Tim Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:02:23 +0000 http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/#comment-3587 I've been hearing that basic perspective at various times for a while now. (Similar things happen with people who consider themselves "rationalists" or "rational skeptics"--if you don't come to the same conclusions they do about religion, then you must be irrational or gullible.) But the immediate prompting was a comment in <a href="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/35/100722704/npr_100722704.mp3" rel="nofollow">this week's episode</a> of Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me. One of the guests was Julia Sweeney, a former SNL actor who has done a monologue on how she lost her faith. At one point she said that she prefers the term "free-thinker" to "atheist". She didn't say it in an arrogant way, but it did seem to reveal her assumptions. I’ve been hearing that basic perspective at various times for a while now. (Similar things happen with people who consider themselves “rationalists” or “rational skeptics”–if you don’t come to the same conclusions they do about religion, then you must be irrational or gullible.)

But the immediate prompting was a comment in this week’s episode of Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me. One of the guests was Julia Sweeney, a former SNL actor who has done a monologue on how she lost her faith. At one point she said that she prefers the term “free-thinker” to “atheist”. She didn’t say it in an arrogant way, but it did seem to reveal her assumptions.

]]> By: Hannah Lindsley http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/comment-page-1/#comment-3570 Hannah Lindsley Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:09:49 +0000 http://www.aglassdimly.com/2009/02/16/ironies-free-thinker/#comment-3570 hahaha - What brought this on? Sounds like you've been sparring with an agnostic... I don't know many people that would admit to being atheist... hahaha – What brought this on? Sounds like you’ve been sparring with an agnostic… I don’t know many people that would admit to being atheist…

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