Magic: Mr. Deity

Mr. Deity cracks me up. He's able to poke fun of religion without being confrontational or totally insulting. After years of being a Christian and getting treated like a cheap stereotype for my new status as a nonbeliever, sometimes it tries my patience to put up with ignorant believers constant blinkered modes of thinking. But in the end, I think being respectful and kind shows believers that there is, in fact, far more sophistication in the secular mind set than they give us credit for.

Enjoy the video!

Why Does Religion Fear Knowledge? Mr. Deity Explains

Mr. Deity, aka Brian Dalton, gives a wonderfully comprehensible speech at the AAI 2009 conference on the egregious religious fear of knowledge, learning, and independent thinking. He talks about his resignation from the Mormon Church and explains how this similar thread of flagrantly illogical thinking plagues the majority of religious believers, but more importantly, elucidates why such a phenomenon is the case. Also there are some entertaining satirical skits in the course of the video. 

I should like to state, that I agree whole-heartedly with the gist of what Brian is saying, and moreover if you took the word "Mormon"  out of his speech and replaced it with "Christianity" the facts would remain virtually the same.

Something to think about.