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| 2021-10-21 |
| [TAKIMAG] This week, we take a focused look at how the West’s most destructive superstition can grip the mind of even the most strident "rationalist," and what that means for those of us who don’t partake in the séance. Penn Jillette, the tall half of the hugely successful magician duo Penn & Teller, is one of the entertainment industry’s most outspoken atheists. For decades, Jillette has smugly condemned all manner of religious, psychic, and pseudoscientific irrationality. He also has a fan base on the right, because as a self-described libertarian, Jillette’s often mused about how "taxation is theft" and government compulsion is bad. Penn Jillette: a man with no gods, including government. A man who falls for no (to use the title of his Showtime series) "bullshit." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 The vocal set of the pro trans community is full of awful people. Noticed Chapelle's The Closer was not on dernetflix You Should Watch category. If that's your thing and you haven't seen it yet, better catch it if its not too late already. Yet, Cuties was A-OK. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-10-21 15:20 |
| #2 I was a big fan of Jillette when he had the show "Bullshit". Then Mr athiest was asked why they beat down Christianity all the time but are silent on Islam's far greater offenses and he basically answered "fear of what they'd do". So he's a big mouth coward. Then he let his personal dislike of Trump over-rule his libertarian leanings and showed he didn't really stand for anything solid. he was a libertarian because it was contrarian in a defensible way, not because he believed in anything libertarian. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2021-10-21 14:01 |
| #1 Cognitive dissonance is a terrible thing to watch. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-21 10:10 |