 My two euro cents
You know, this post... made me guffaw, then I looked slightly baffled, then slightly guilty.
As someone whose personal opinion is that religion/faith is a form of mental illness, and who watches the believers around him for signs that they may be "led astray", actively contributing to that "deconversion" when possible... of course I was amused by this article - it echoed of what I sometimes feel like shouting, the cheap shots I feel like taking... but resist doing so.
From whence cometh the bafflement and guilt? Well... fundamentally because after the elation of the bald-faced article, that initial "damn!", I thought.. wait a second, take a believer, any believer... imagine him teetering (fully "under the influence" people are almost impervious to any argument) - will he be more or less likely to be deconverted? My answer, for my own simulated model of believers, would be less - it would drive people into defensive denial.
So, funny as it was, I believe this article to be counterproductive to my objectives. Which aren't necessarily Steve's. Pluswhich... dropping a nuke in the pot is, admittedly, a way to stir it.
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