READING CHAT: "Atheists and the left are in desperate need of new representation."
Yeah well, this is what I'm talking about, there's a difference in priority.
Secular leftists care about different
stuff; they don't care about this war
against political correctness. So it
seems like they don't have any
representation, but they're there; they
just care about stuff that actually
matters. We've gotten to a point where I
don't think your atheism should be
what informs what you
do in your life, and I think that's what
a lot of secular leftists have started to understand.
But it's like I said, it's
happening. There's people out
there that are realizing you
need to take a step forward.
There's people like Matt
Dillahunty and Dave Silverman and
other people who are known
for their atheism, but also realizing
that there's a segment of atheism that is toxic and maybe needs to be
resisted. Like I I'm still
really hostile towards religion overall,
like I still consider myself an anti
theist--it's just not the issue right now.
There's other things going on.
There's other things that I feel like
are worth my time. It would
be a misguided attack for me to just
navigate around the issues that are
right in front of me and then go and say,
"oh Islam's bad."  I think what a lot of
atheist progressives are realizing is
that fanaticism and dogmatic beliefs are
not unique to religion. And I think
that's one of the reasons why
a lot of atheist progressives have
sort of stopped going in so hard
on religion,
because it's not specifically the
religion. I think that religion has
problems for sure but we've realized
that we're seeing the same kind of
fanaticism and dogmatic beliefs
and emotion based arguments within our
own community--within the Atheist
community.
