This is awful. If @C_Stroop really thinks 'movement atheism' is neglecting women & (ex)Muslims, he's not been paying attention. Hate the word 'thought-leader' but if you look at which people are most listened to, you find a lot of women & ex-Muslims. https://thinklab.com/c/secularism/thought-leaders …https://twitter.com/millbot/status/963035091613208576 …
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I strongly dislike the idea that trying to be right is a bad thing. This just leaves the options of trying to be wrong or not caring whether you're right or wrong or not thinking there is such a thing as right or wrong.
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If you mean being too certain of anything, say so. This is valid. The best any of us can hope for, really, is to be the least wrong we can be. This does require a focus on trying to be right, tho.
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And if you're concerned about tribes forming around atheism, this is also a valid concern. I recommend the book. Everybody is Wrong About God for this. There's really no need to go blathering on about toxic masculinity. Ever, actually.
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I wrote this on the subject of the future of 'new atheism' but obviously, people motivated to go on about the non-inclusiveness of some mythical new atheist movement to women prefer to forget I exist.https://areomagazine.com/2017/05/15/where-now-for-new-atheists/ …
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I appreciate all those new atheist personalities & their views but I always had a problem w/ atheism being molded into a doctrine. Why not just leave it as a secular realm of observation & discourse instead of reducing it an ostensible ideology?
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I don't think the new atheists did that. Atheism+ did. But the so-called 'new atheists' have a range of views.
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That was my original assumption but sometimes Harris & Dawkins et al sound like theyre constructing a doctrine In any case the regressive assault on new atheism is very amusing since they go to such lengths to shield every other pernicious doctrine from scrutiny of accountability
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In any case suffice to say Atheism w/ a capital A is regarded often from many perspectives as having a doctrinal basis giving regressives a handle, albeit an absurd one, to displace all their absurd arguments. I would like to defend the assumption it is not a hard & fast doctrine
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Well, no. James' book Everybody is Wrong About God argues against an atheist movement or taking 'atheist' as an identity.
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I would very much agree w/ this thesis on its face.
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