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Originally Posted by troutman
I was on the Board of SHIC, and a group splintered off under the umbrella of the Center of Free Inquiry. There was a tension between SHIC just being a social organization, or being activist. I don't think the movement gains much by being agressive.
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There's a difference between aggressive and involved in the public debate, and for humanists, secularists, atheists, agnostics, etc.. Just to get organized to push back against religious dogma that affects our laws, policy decisions and ultimately is a huge issue in world politics.
These campaigns on the bus ads are so incredibly benign but the reactions and attention it get is the definition of irony. Religious leaders being offended at the audacity of people even making such a statement as "There probably is no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life."
I mean as a group we are all pretty much in agreement on key things, but this loose organization of people who think alike in some key aspects is damned if they speak up, damned if they don't.
If we organize its apparently ironic to the religious, I guess somewhere they decided if you organize as a group you are just like any religion lol.
If we do nothing, never speak out, then Religion has no counter point and no counter argument to it, when daily religion loudly pushes its views on Television, Print, through politicians and even worse through the laws it pushes on us like restricting stem cell research, withholding gay marriage freedoms, etc..
For the non believers that think we shouldn't run ad campaigns or that Dawkins/Hitchens are big meanies that are hurting the poor defenseless religious folk in the world; you have every right to not speak your mind or be involved in the public discourse, but don't think since some of us do speak up it makes us anything like that which we oppose.
We only organize because we got fed up with Bush, we got fed up with Creationism pushing to get back into public schools, we got fed up with the rise in religiosity in the Muslim world and in the US after 9/11.