The Image Problem With Atheism in America

[Mister Agenda]

It would be nice if more 'atheists of color' joined active atheist groups.

The problem is white atheists in America do nothing to encourage minority atheists to join their ranks...they're just like the Republicans who think it's a good idea to have a few token blacks and hispanics to entice the minorities, but that always fail quite miserably.

Um, atheists aren't even an organization. Some atheists tend to gravitate towards organizations that are predominantly atheist. The organizations themselves tend to be passive: the active membership is whoever shows up. It's a fact that a higher percentage of atheists are white, and it's probable that if a person of color comes to a meeting, looks around, and sees no one else like them, they will be less likely to come back, regardless of how they're encouraged to return. If those organizations did more outreach, no one would complain about it more bitterly than people like you. I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have all the nonwhite atheists in my area start to show up to our meetings. I don't have a magic wand. I have some ideas, and all I can do is try them. But the reason atheist groups don't have proportionate representation of blacks and other racial minorities is nothing like the reasons the GOP, which acts against their interests at every turn, does.

There's also no atheist kkk. Fucking atheists with their liberal bias!

Most of the conservative leaders that caused the most destruction in history have been atheists. It only took them 50 years to ten-fold outmatch the theists in terms of sheer brutality. But wait....next someone will use the No True Scotsman fallacy to bullshit out of that reality.

I like how you anticipate that the fact that you misrepresented the communist totalitarian dictators of the last century as 'conservatives' would be criticized, but it's not fallacious to point out that apples aren't oranges.

I do have to agree with Agenda though....most people don't have an issue with the religion of America so much as Americans themselves....Americans are going to act the same way whether they're Christian, Moslem, Jew, or Atheist.

Pretty much. The more we're a slice of America, the more average/typical we will be.

I have seen far too many American atheists who simply copy their beliefs from a blogger's website (sounds just like those Fundies with their Biblical interpretations).

I've seen far too many idiots who think they can divine where people got their ideas from a few posts, but you don't see me complaining about it.

One Yank was such a dolt,. he thought that using an atheist blog to explain advanced evolution principles was valid when basic university (state college evolution courses) websites thoroughly disproved it.

Given the Nobel Prize awaiting the faculty members who disprove evolution, I'm surprised I've not heard of this historic event.

Min, from your comments, you have agreed with many positions made by the WBC. You really want to act like them?

Funny, from Min's comments, I gather he already acts a bit like WBC but doesn't hold ANY of their positions. I'm interested to hear two examples of positions of the WBC also held by Min. You claim he agrees with many of the WBC's positions, so coming up with two shouldn't be hard.

Although your behavior on this forum so far leads me to predict you're going to misrepresent Min terribly, though I hope I'm mistaken.