The ‘Not Alone’ Project
Stories about the struggles that people have had in coming out as an atheist are being captured on Martin Pribble’s Not Alone Project website.
Stories about the struggles that people have had in coming out as an atheist are being captured on Martin Pribble’s Not Alone Project website.
Social media are so intemperate that we only seem to have two options in response to Tweets like the one that the post begins with: either to denounce Dawkins as an Islamophobe, or to support him vociferously.
Yesterday, I appeared to be “on show” as an alien creature – and that’s partly because we’re not doing enough to educate people about what we believe, and why.
oolOn’s Block Bot isn’t a bad idea in principle – in fact, I think it’s a good one – but tools like these can have unintended consequences.
It’s not as simple as saying “don’t feed the trolls”, partly because that smacks a little of victim-blaming, and also because there are too damn many of them.
While particular ages of consent are arbitrary, they can nevertheless be less or more principled.
An index of how rewarding I found TAM2013 to be is simply this: I doubt I’ll miss another one.
Day one of #TAM2013 has been fantastic, and I look forward to more of the same.
While atheism might not necessarily lead to being anti-discrimination (of arbitrary sorts), I do think it’s not only compatible with anti-discrimination, but more than that – it’s more likely to lead to it than not.
The EU Foreign Affairs Council have released guidelines that make it clear that religion is optional, and certainly can’t be used as a vehicle or excuse for oppression or abuse.
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