Atheism +

[TaraJo]

Er... Let me retell that story: the folks I hang out with at The Amazing Atheist's fan forum decided to start a trolling campaign, and I stuck around after the smoke cleared because
-There are a lot of Foucault fans over there, and that stuff looks interesting
-the people there are pretty nice if you don't rub them the wrong way
Alternatively: no worries.

Oh, yeah, I hear ya. I've talked to them in other areas and they can be alright most the time. Once they get on their social justice soap box, though, game over.

I'm not saying concerns over social justice are bad, but when you allow your concern over disenfranchised groups to lead you to hate everyone else, something's wrong. Open minds are important; If you have an honest, good faith criticism of my belief, whether those beliefs are social or religious or political or whatever, I'm more than open to hearing it. I want my beliefs to be able to withstand criticism and if they can't, I want to either tweak them to the point that they do or abandon them entirely.

It's frustrating to see how closed minded they are also because they're wearing the 'atheist' label. Gives me a bad name, y'know? I don't know how they came to become atheists, but it doesn't seem to be the same way I did; I make a conscious effort to quesion everything and if a belief or idea doesn't stand up to my questioning, I don't believe it. That's how I rejected religion and that's why I reject their radical feminist agenda. Yet when you question feminism to them, you suddenly become a heritic. They obviously don't apply critical thinking skills to everything and don't encourage others to apply critical thinking to everything or else they wouldn't buy into such one sided social justice philosophy.

I might consider going there, but I think I've already made quite a reputation with a few of them and can't imagine they would really accept me. I suppose I could use a dummy email address and get in under a sock puppet name, but that seems like way more trouble than it's worth (besides which, I'd be afraid to post on their forum without first having my post approved by no less than 3 civil rights attorneys).