Interview With Don Bradley.

[Kishkumen]

Don: “So there's an ideology that has to be embraced. So to go from, you know, growing up a devout Latter-day Saint and jettisoning that ideology and then embracing an atheistic ideology, then stepping away from that to say, “Okay, what's the next ideology am I going to embrace?”

Huh! OK. Well, I am not sure why he used that terminology, but it is not a felicitous or accurate choice of words. Maybe he has come to see his former atheism as ideological, but I would not have described it as such at the time when I knew him as an atheist.

[Shulem]

Don: “So there's an ideology that has to be embraced. So to go from, you know, growing up a devout Latter-day Saint and jettisoning that ideology and then embracing an atheistic ideology, then stepping away from that to say, “Okay, what's the next ideology am I going to embrace?”

Huh! OK. Well, I am not sure why he used that terminology, but it is not a felicitous or accurate choice of words. Maybe he has come to see his former atheism as ideological, but I would not have described it as such at the time when I knew him as an atheist.

Are you sure or not, Kishy?

How about you ask him rather than speak for him!

[huckelberry]

Shulem,
One can hear the word ideology being used to identify a group of interrelated ideas or beliefs. The word might carry a connotation of rigidily holding those ideas without being able to consider alternatives or questions.

I do not know Don but from the interview I understood him to mean more the first rather than the second.

[I Have Questions]

Don: “So there's an ideology that has to be embraced. So to go from, you know, growing up a devout Latter-day Saint and jettisoning that ideology and then embracing an atheistic ideology, then stepping away from that to say, “Okay, what's the next ideology am I going to embrace?”

Huh! OK. Well, I am not sure why he used that terminology, but it is not a felicitous or accurate choice of words. Maybe he has come to see his former atheism as ideological, but I would not have described it as such at the time when I knew him as an atheist.

I’m unsure as to why you feel qualified to assert that Don is misspeaking about his own journey, but let’s say you’re correct in your assessment. You’re basically saying Don is misleading people about his journey (maybe unwittingly), and that he was less devout and committed at each stage of that journey as he jumped from one ideology to the next, than he is trying to portray.