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David_Gerard comments on Request for input: draft of my "coming out" statement on religious deconversion - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: jwhendy 03 March 2012 09:58PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 04 March 2012 03:30:48PM *  4 points [-]

Yes, that's what I was trying to say - "atheists exist" is a sufficiently threatening thought to block all further consideration.

(And, of course, Catholic apologetics is some of the most sophisticated in Christendom.)

Idea that occurs to me: Do you think you could do a single-page summary? There's a chance they might read it and not just go "ah, an atheist - tl;dr". Then they can have the ten-page version if they like. "For the full version, see my blog."

Comment author: jwhendy 04 March 2012 05:41:34PM 2 points [-]

Gotcha. I'm still not sure my specific readership will say, as you put it, "An, an atheist -- tl;dr," but I'll keep thinking about this. I hoped it would be concise (not necessarily 1 page, but not 10, either). As with most of my things, it ended up much longer than I expected. Thanks for the continued input.