RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2012 at 5:27 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
(January 24, 2012 at 5:09 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I'm not anti-females but I think many feminists are ridiculous.And I don't agree with some of the double standards in favor of women, but I support feminism at least 75-90% of the way, so I think that counts as being in favor of feminism.
What he says is what the president of American Atheists has said as well - religion knows how to organize. It knows how to appeal.
I think the way he couched some of his suggestions could be improved upon.
Yes, I think that atheism does need to organize... to fight for the rights of atheists and keep religion out of the government, not a half-contradictory message.
So what you're saying is that it should not be called Atheism 2.0 at all, but something more along the lines of humanism, except it takes a hodgepodge of different religious concepts and combines them into some sort of mesh.
I like celebrating Christmas too, but I am by no means religious. That is not religion, that is simply entertainment. So if that's what the message of Atheism 2.0, then he shouldn't use the word "religion" because it's everything about the word "religion" that is bad. If practices have a good reason, almost by definition, they are no longer religious, and so the argument for being religious to do good things-- to do good things becomes both redundant and circular. These Atheism 2.0 guys seem to always be Christians pretending to be atheist (just like all the "I used to be atheist" Christians).
(January 24, 2012 at 5:10 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I prefer Atheism 2.1. They worked out some of the bugs.Lol, I'd like to know what Atheism 2.1 is about!
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
