(August 12, 2013 at 12:10 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: The best method here to employ a positive image towards atheism/agnostism/deism, humanism, or secularism, is to be good people.
1. We need to create a very visible base that religion is not needed to be “moral”.
2. To establish step one, use reason, logic, and rationality to establish a moral code.
3. Combat the corruption, greed, and social injustice since the religions are not doing it.
4. Help out the poor, disadvantaged, and hurting.
5. Use science to cure people. (irony huh.)
6. Combat psychological illnesses and mental issues and not alienate them.
7. Heal psychological and emotional issues that religions either create or neglect.
8. As difficult as it is, we need to take some pointers from Jesus. Be calm, timid, understanding and patient with people as we debate them.
9. Push for scientific advancement, social progression, and humanism over pure profit, greed and power.
10. Finally become the “Light and Salt of the Earth” that religion is not.
Sounds like Atheism+ to me. You don't need to start a movement. You can just go join that one. I'm not looking to go on any mission for or against god. If there is any way to find any meaning and fulfillment in this life, I mean to do that now. Transforming all of humanity is a losing bet. The thing to remember is that they are all peers and not sheep, at least potentially. Their transformation begins with what they do, not how we herd them.
