Sharing the "Good News"
I recently saw a Facebook post by a "reasonist" page indicating that the author's Christian friend had become an atheist after watching a documentary entitled Zeitgeist , apparently without a word from the already-atheist friend. The author was obviously proud that he/she had liberated this person from Christianity and turned them to "reason". I read the thread that ensued, watched the movie myself on Netflix then provided a link to a quality skeptic's site with a debunking review ( http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4196 ). Many were a little uncomfortable with the posting about de-conversion and considered Zeitgeist to be an extremely weak documentary and any de-conversion with this less-than-scholarly work would likely not stand. Others criticized the author for attempting to indoctrinate the Christian into thinking the way they did about religious matters. I've been grinding on this a bit for the past couple of days. Many of the atheists / freethinke