Commentary on Scientific Skeptical podcasts and random musings on various topics Skeptical and otherwise. (No longer active blog)
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Skepticism compared to activist Atheism - Sharon Hill
Sharon Hill is on a roll lately. Doubtful News is a hit. She's a speaker at NECSS and the upcoming T.A.M. She even has a gig at the Huffington Post. I am not the biggest fan of the HuffPo or Arriana Huffington. Still, it is a cool gig. Ok, it is a very cool gig. While I am happy for Hill, I still can't help but think 'damn you Arriana you win again . . .You win again.
Enough general gushing over Hill. Hill spoke at the Pennsylvania State Atheist Convention, which took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the Capital of the Commonwealth* of Pennsylvania last year. Oddly enough the hotel the conference was held is located across the street from my work parking garage. I did not attend the conference mainly because, while I am not a person of faith and I do fall on the agnostic, atheist, nonbeliever, heathen spectrum, atheist activism just in not my thing. I have sympathies, but I am decidedly a Skeptic, and pretty much just a skeptic.
However, Hill spoke at the conference. Her talk discussed the differences between Skeptics and atheists. Most of the readership of this blog likely has heard this discussed before, but Hill does a nice job of wrapping into a nice 30 minute or so talk where the differences are anchored. She does so in a pithy non-confrontational style. I typically do not watch most Youtube videos of talks that I run across in my twitter feed. I simple would have to give up sleep inorder to fit them into my schedule. Yet, I think this one is well worth the time. Even if one does not agree with Hill's take (I pretty much agree with her.) She makes a nice pitch for the good fences between neighbors view of things within the free thought world.
*that's right the State of Pennsylvania refers to itself as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We are a queer lot in Penna. at times.
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