LINK "Identitarianism" isn't tearing Humanists apart. It's making us stronger.
In an editorial appearing in the June/July issue of Free Inquiry, Robyn Blumner, the CEO of the Center for Inquiry and the executive director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason &, Science, claims identity politics and cancel culture have “torn apart” the Humanist movement (as far as there is one) mostly because people criticized Dawkins for perpetuating anti-trans talking points.
That end result, we’re told, is a major “schism”:
(For me, it just demonstrates that anyone can be wrong, and nobody is correct 100% of the time. I also lost some respect for Dawkins as far as his starting from an unbiased viewpoint.)
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Schisms are for religious zealots....we independent thinkers have never had a "gospel" to splinter from.
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@Garban good luck with that......
Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, like most humans are not of one mind. In fact much less so than the religious because we don’t have pastors, priests, Imam, shaman or other “interpreters” of some ancient texts telling us what we should think and do. One of the reasons we are often referred to as “free thinker.”
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