(April 20, 2015 at 11:29 pm)Polaris Wrote: Notice who comprises most of the outspoken atheist community.... white men.
I do notice. So what's wrong with us women and minority atheists? Seriously. It's not as if there is a single megaphone out there and white men are hogging it.
I have a few suggestions for why there are fewer outspoken women and minority atheists though. Atheism is not a popular position. To be really outspoken you need to feel safe and secure. Also education and atheism are linked. What you are seeing is the most secure educated group out in front. Not a big surprise.
Additionally, atheism isn't an organization, support group, or religion. It's not as if woman and minorities could be excluded or excommunicated. I don't believe a god of any sort, so I'm an atheist. No group of outspoken white men is going to have any impact on that belief.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
