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New Member, and a strong Atheist.
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RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist.
(September 27, 2010 at 9:36 pm)Beam Reach Wrote: I would be described as a strong or militant Atheist.

Militant Atheist you say?...

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Quote:My goals are to work to main stream the Atheist view, while helping develop an Atheist political voice.

It's not your place to speak for "atheists" - The only necessity arising from the label is non-belief, attaching any ideals to a label in a political sense is really going to have a good chance of pissing many people off. If you're a secular humanist run under that banner, if not then invent something else, but for fucks sake don't try and speak for everyone who is an Atheist.

The chances of you matching my political ideologies for instance is pretty slim, so if you attach political meaning to atheism in a way that enforces that relationship in the minds of others all you have done is rape the word atheist of it's intended meaning and fuck things up for us atheists who have to now make a distinction between our atheism and yours.

So please, whatever the fuck you do, do not speak for anyone but yourself and those who are happy to take up the label that specifically represents your political ideology.
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Messages In This Thread
New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Beam Reach - September 27, 2010 at 9:36 pm
RE: Mew Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Cego_Colher - September 27, 2010 at 9:53 pm
RE: Mew Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Beam Reach - September 27, 2010 at 10:26 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Xyster - September 27, 2010 at 10:49 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by everythingafter - September 27, 2010 at 11:18 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Shell B - September 27, 2010 at 11:34 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by theVOID - September 27, 2010 at 11:38 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by Beam Reach - September 28, 2010 at 7:03 am
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by everythingafter - September 29, 2010 at 10:36 am
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by theVOID - September 28, 2010 at 7:46 am
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by LastPoet - September 28, 2010 at 1:35 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by tackattack - September 28, 2010 at 2:38 pm
RE: New Member, and a strong Atheist. - by theVOID - September 28, 2010 at 10:36 pm

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