It’s always helpful when the trash takes itself out.
My piece on why three well-known atheists just resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation—and why they won’t be missed.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/three-prominent-atheists-resigned
My piece on why three well-known atheists just resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation—and why they won’t be missed.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/three-prominent-atheists-resigned
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Dawkins had only ever spoken with abject contempt and it’s embarrassing how long he was allowed to lead in atheist spaces. Glad he’s finally kicking himself to the kerb but, as you note, a shame the organisations themselves didn’t!
What an ignorant, hypocritical asshole.
I thought they were made-up so evangelical christians could say they were persecuted and that atheists had churches of their own.
This begs the question "since they exist, wwhat does the F.F.R.F. actually do?"
(Also, you might be new to the internet, but FYI if someone's asking a question online it's usually because googling it already failed them.)
In case u forgot. Get on d change bandwagon or become extinct. Thank u for ur service. We’ll remember & study ur teachings as d initial steps of a global revolutionary movement.
And not just a little, or one or two opinions shared once.
Not Epstein, he is dead. For sex trafficking teenagers. Which Pinker doesn't want you to talk about.
Pinker.
pseudoscience - and prejudices, like transphobia, that make epistemic claims are pseudosciences - is all the same
that really opened my eyes to his thinking
probably just fell in with the wrong crowd
around 31 minutes into this conversation he's having with peter singer
and it's actually worse than i remember because he says he thinks he would have been a slaveowner (a "reluctant" one, whatever that means)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYNY2oKVWU
he was explaining how he views his own sense of morality as largely shaped by the existing norms of the culture he lives in. i vaguely think it was to defend the racism of darwin
Well, Happy bloody Holidays to us non-deity-believers who very much Do believe in biological diversity and actual fuckin equality.
If you want a thriving atheist community, you need to stand for Trans rights.
He just invented his own.
Seeing Dawkins on Krauss's Hitchens panel where they tried to sanewash the gender crap was the last straw. It shouldn't have been. Some of us defended him for way too long.
You know how that works yes? "See, even Hitler thinks your evil is weird." sort of shit that they just LOVE to wolf down. He's a science Pick-Me.
Sex is also a bimodal spectrum, the same as gender (gender identity is sex characteristic & was called biosocial sex in medicine)
He just picked up on the far right’s newest fake outrage and immediately accepted it as the truth because he wanted to positive engagement from the bigots.
There are XY women with a working SRY gene that have conceived and given birth naturally.
There are experts on the brain that say trans people are what they say.
He's chosen belief over science.
Sorry ppl are in here going ‘what does the ffrf do’ when you describe that in your post.
I haven’t donated to them since elevatorgate, but if they can give a real apology and replace these three with ethical humanists they may be headed in a better direction.