Activist atheists.
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Gawdzilla Sama
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Activist atheists.
That, I think, is the term I've been looking for.
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Re: Activist atheists.
Stop with the militant stridency already! 
Actually, that is a great term, for people who actually do something. As far as the great cause is concerned, I just refuse to sign off on other people's bullshit in social situations.
Actually, that is a great term, for people who actually do something. As far as the great cause is concerned, I just refuse to sign off on other people's bullshit in social situations.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Activist atheists.
http://www.rationalresponders.com/Robert_S wrote:Stop with the militant stridency already!
Actually, that is a great term, for people who actually do something. As far as the great cause is concerned, I just refuse to sign off on other people's bullshit in social situations.
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Re: Activist atheists.
I think I'm a passive atheist... 
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Re: Activist atheists.
That's the public image they try to promote. Privately, they resemble the Catholic Church's Diocesan Youth Commission's logo, anno 1973. True, clerics who are paedophiles are in the minority, but since the hierarchy of all denominations has protected them from the arm of the law for centuries, all those institutions are implicated in the crimes committed by the minorities* among themRum wrote:
* and by that, I am not referring to the victims.
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Re: Activist atheists.
Active atheists? People who do something about nothing? (almost a joke there, did you see..)
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Re: Activist atheists.
Being an activist promoter of secularism would make more sense, in some ways...
It would be somewhat hypocritical of me to head in that direction, of course...
It would be somewhat hypocritical of me to head in that direction, of course...
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