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I realized within the last couple of years that I am an atheist. The more I read and thought about religion and politics, the more I worried about the issues which divide us humans from each other. It seems to me that many of these divisions–whipped up and exaggerated by dastardly and manipulative forces or not–are derived from faith.

So I went on an online pilgrimage just over two months ago. I set out in search of real conversation with real people, in hopes that I would find someone with whom to have a real conversation about our differences. Would we be able to communicate and understand each other? Would we agree about our differences? Could we ever begin to resolve them?

I achieved mixed results. The short version is that I learned that A. J. Leibling was right when he said that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

Well, thanks to Brian, I do own one, and it’s available to you too. Come join me at www.differhonestly.com where you can read the rest of my story and reach out to people who are different from you.