Organized atheist community needs to think about how they are serving as a gateway to bigotry (as, of course, many religions do as well).https://twitter.com/ChrisDStedman/status/994575084173053954 …
Gateway theory doesn't require most organized atheists to be right-leaning. It requires (as is the case) for this to be a path. If you hang out around alt right people, it's sometimes discussed as a path.
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1/ I don't doubt organized atheism is a path for some. But any theory that doesn't require that the "gateway" is reliably a gateway for most is barely worth the name. Puts one in mind of Jeff Sessions's revival of the laughable canard that pot is a "gateway" drug.
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2/ More to the point, if many (most?) atheists *may* be unaffiliated and many (most?) affiliated atheists are likely not rightists, why are we debating this at a moment when religious zealots (of every stripe) are working so much more mischief than the irreligious?
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