And those that write about it, should learn how to write. Two Shocking Attacks on Atheism
2 Shocking Attacks on Atheism -- And How Atheists Fought Back
In the last few years atheists have become seriously organized, mobilized, visible, vocal and unapologetic about their atheism.
December 1, 2011
If there are just two things you take away from this story, they should be:
Anti-atheist bigotry and discrimination, of a completely overt, very ugly kind, is real.
Atheists are no longer putting up with it. If you fuck with them, they will fuck with you right back. And they know how to do it.
Two recent events in the news illustrate this bigotry vividly. In the first, a billboard company in Ohio rejected an atheist billboard campaign -- at the last minute, the week before the billboards were scheduled to go up, after weeks of extensive discussion and planning with no hint of trouble -- because the atheist content was deemed "obscene, unnecessarily offensive and/or not in the best interests of the community at large."
In the second story, a local merchant near an atheist conference put a sign on his shop door, explicitly saying that conference attendees were not welcome in his Christian business. And he got a faceful of Internet fury for his trouble. blah blah
7 comments:
Good Sunday
Interesting conversation, an interminable chain.
https://twitter.com/w_nicht/status/280246101620174849
I think people like her (including myself) have been lucky. Religion didn't do us – and the ones we love – harm. Experience is the best teacher. In addition, activism concerning theism is not everyone’s ability, vocation or profession. Logic, we don’t call ourselves atheists. Can’t have it all.
I believe, so long as there are men and women, there will be religion, in any shape or form. Religion is a hobby, politics is a vocation and a profession.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Oh, the irony.
It’s raining, time for housework.
Your secular woman.
Meanwhile the discussion continues
http://bit.ly/SX75kv
and so does cruelty, injustice and intolerance.
Oh, those cultural differences.
Oh, those cultural differences. Indeed.
And labels, don't forget the labels.
Just your cup of tea. Smiley face, with wink.
Oh, those labels.
https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/307427621061410816
Smiley face, with asterisk. M
From the article:
Atheism is a by-product of my other thoughts and beliefs.
On the right track.
16 December 2012 14:16
http://bit.ly/XnQtUh
The house band played Cat Stevens.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheism-starts-its-own-megachurch-it-religion-now
http://hollowverse.com/cat-stevens/
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