Secularism - Blog Posts
This blog is a space for apostates/ex-religious, self-proclaimed heretics/heathens, secular/irreligious celibates.
With this blog, i post and reblog topics related to severing my ties with god and religion.
Growing up as religious, I was taught that my purpose is to get married, reproduce, and increase the population of believers, which i reject.
I’m on a journey to find meaning through philosophy and celibacy, without needing to depend on relationships or religion to have purpose in life and find individuality.
The atheists who hate the terms "culturally Christian" or "Christianized" atheist/atheism, need to come to a reckoning with the fact that most of the people talking about the phenomenon of Christian cultural practices and default assumptions remaining present in atheist communities in historically Christian and Christianized parts of the world, are in fact also atheists.
Jewish atheists, and other atheists from non-Christian cultural backgrounds latched on to "culturally Christian" as a term to describe the ways in which atheist communities dominated by people from majority Christian, or majority Christianized, countries, are hostile to us and don't recognize our forms of atheism and secularism as legitimate, in spite of the fact that we also don't believe in any deity. it also became a convenient term to talk about the ways in which atheists from culturally Christian backgrounds frequently insist that to be properly secular, properly an atheist, you have to assimilate into a specific set of cultural practices viewed by these particular atheists as culturally and religiously neutral, AKA secular. "Culturally Christian" is a convenient term used to point out that these are not in fact culturally neutral practices, and that there are forms of atheism that do not include them, and include other cultural practices, and that atheists from other cultural backgrounds should not have to assimilate into another culture, for our atheism to be considered valid.
So like, the fact that the response to the term culturally Christian is to paint the non culturally Christian people using it, as religious people going after atheists as atheists, is both an example of a culturally Christian phenomenon, and also really obnoxious and ironic, given that the people who are making this argument are usually making it from within the atheist community. We are also atheists, which is why this phenomenon actually matters to us. This is an intra-community discussion, and trying to frame it as the mean religious people going after the atheists, erases our atheism, and is really annoying, and the only thing it serves to do, is to protect the people using this framing, from having to confront what those of us talking about the phenomenon are actually saying.
Something to consider.
Religious Fundamentalist Ken Ham Battles US Constitution on Twitter
Religious Fundamentalist Ken Ham Battles US Constitution
This morning, Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, took to Twitter to release a barrage of tweets insisting that public schools have the right to plan and execute school trips to his newly-opened Ark Encounter biblical theme park which teaches, among other things, that the Earth is no older than 6,000 years and that evolution is false.
It seems that Mr. Ham is blissfully unfamiliar with the…
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Bill Nye says "Change the world!" at Reason Rally On June 4th, 2016, Bill Nye, clad in his customary suit and bow tie, took center stage at Reason Rally in Washington DC.
Penn Jillette and Carolina Peña at Reason Rally
Penn Jillette and Carolina Peña at #ReasonRally
Saturday, June 4th, Penn Jillette introduced Carolina Peña, a former contestant on ‘Equador’s Got Talent’ on the main stage at Reason Rally in Washington DC. Carolina was berated by three of the four judges, not for her singing abilities or overall talent, but for lacking a belief in any gods. She was told that, basically, without God, she could have no talent. The fourth judge quite rightly…
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Star Trek's Q (John de Lancie) speaks at Reason Rally
On a hot, humid Saturday in Washington DC, John de Lancie expressed his views on the negative effects of religious indoctrination on science.
His thought-provoking presentation did include some heartbreaking points, though. His story about students at a college he had visited should fill you with dread for the future of our nation.
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