These groups split on ethical grounds & then each side thinks of themselves as having been cast out by a bigger & wrong-headed mainstream.
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Moral communities cannot form around this & they're really always about secularism, liberalism, rationalism, human rights - positive things.
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I've had this same thought. I'm atheist by the nature of what I DON'T believe. It doesn't say anything about what I DO believe.
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Also why I'm not comfortable with so many atheist groups, building a community around what is simply an absence of belief.
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Yes. I wrote a thing about this approach & the post-theistic one advocated by
@GodDoesnt which talks about this. http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-conflicting-approaches-of-david.html …
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Yes, building a movement on the absence of something was always a bit iffy. Used to lurk at Freethought Blogs, locus of the Great Schism.
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