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Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Introduction: Mike presents the book "A Manual for Creating Atheists" by Peter Boghossian as the foundational text for the Street Epistemology movement

Opening of Tuesday livestream, Mike sets the tone as reasoning together, not adversarial

Apologetics A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Boghossian explicitly states the book's purpose is to talk people out of their faith

Mike reads directly from page 15 of the book

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Page 15 quote: Boghossian's stated goal is to create a generation of Street Epistemologists who help people abandon faith and embrace reason

Mike reads page 15 of the book at length

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Faith
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Mike argues the book is designed to brainwash atheists and secular readers, not engage Christians

Mike explains who the book's real audience is

A Manual for Creating Atheists Faith Brainwashing
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Chapter 2 of Boghossian's book is primarily about redefining terms to create cognitive filters

Mike begins his analysis of the book's chapter structure

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Boghossian redefines "faith" as "pretending to know things you don't know"

Mike quotes Boghossian's definition of faith directly

Hebrews 11:1 Hebrews 11:1 A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
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Boghossian's multi-page substitution chart trains readers to mentally replace every use of "faith" with "pretending to know things you don't know"

Mike shows and reads from the chart in Boghossian's book

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Faith
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Boghossian redefines atheism to make it a claim about evidence rather than a position about God's existence

Mike turns to the second major redefinition in chapter 2

Atheism A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

Summary of chapter 2: Boghossian redefines faith, atheism, and agnosticism to rig the intellectual playing field

Mike synthesizes his analysis of chapter 2

Atheism A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
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Page 30: Boghossian's principal argument against faith is circular — it presupposes his false definition

Mike analyzes Boghossian's core argument structure

Circular reasoning A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
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Chapter 3: doxastic closure — Boghossian continues the assault on faith while romanticizing Street Epistemology

Mike transitions to chapter 3 of the book

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Faith
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Page 43-44: Boghossian claims faith removes wonder and curiosity; Mike counters that faith enhances his intellectual engagement

Mike quotes and rebuts pages 43-44

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Faith
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Pages 44-45: Boghossian romanticizes the Street Epistemologist as a hero rescuing people from the faith "virus"

Mike reads from pages 44-45

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-27

The book assumes religious people have not thought through their beliefs — which Mike says is demonstrably false

Mike identifies a core assumption embedded in the book

Apologetics A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
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Boghossian self-contradicts by quoting David Hume approvingly: "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"

Mike identifies a self-contradiction on page 45

David Hume A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian
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Chapters 4+ of the book present the tactics: primary tactic is to avoid facts and simply ask questions to instill doubt

Mike transitions to Boghossian's tactical section

Apologetics A Manual for Creating Atheists Street Epistemology
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Greg Koukl contrasts his book "Tactics" with Boghossian's book: both use questions, but Koukl cares about truth and intellectual virtue while Boghossian cares only about instilling doubt

Video clip from Greg Koukl (Stand to Reason)

Greg Koukl Stand to Reason A Manual for Creating Atheists
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The SE practitioner has also been manipulated: Boghossian's book brainwashes the practitioner before they go out to create doubt in others

Mike offers his final summary point

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology
Mike Winger idea 2019-04-10

Street Epistemology described; Adam Does SE ran a counter-poll; major atheists responded to it

Introducing Street Epistemology and its adherents

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology
Mike Winger idea 2019-04-10

Peter Boghossian's "A Manual for Creating Atheists" teaches that "I believe in God" secretly means "I pretend to know things I don't know"

Critique of Boghossian's framing of religious belief

A Manual for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian Street Epistemology