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What about Alex O'Connor?

I like Alex O'Connor.

Alex O'Connor is very interesting.

So as a Christian apologist who's been watching the debate scene, especially with the rise of the new atheists going back to 2006 era when it was the four horsemen, so-called, Dawkins and Harris, Hitchens and Dennett –

Before that time, it was more scattered.

They really brought a public spectacle to Christian-atheist dialogue, right?

But they were very anti-Christian in so many ways.

Alex O'Connor is interesting in that he's not just making random accusations.

He's actually studying the text.

He's actually trying to learn New Testament scholarship.

He'll concede points directly.

I find him, from what I've seen, to be somewhat fair-minded and balanced in his approach.

And if more atheists model that, I think we can actually go a lot farther than we have in some kind of mutual understanding.

So I feel like Alex has went on a journey that is plausible.

Commendable.

Yeah, I agree.

I think he's probably the best.

Is he atheist or agnostic?

Last I knew, he was an atheist.

His original thing was cosmic skeptic, and skeptics are technically somewhat different than atheists.