Repentance

Repentance
I Repented, that's why I'm a happy godless slut now.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Godless Groups Just Get Together To Do Shit


Something that’s been occupying the backburner spaces in my mental kitchen over the past year or so has been the place of groups and activities within an atheist community that are not specifically related to atheistic activism. There’s been a growing number of these popping up in our local community lately, and I’ve been loving it. Not only do I think that there is a place for these sorts of groups, I think that they are necessary.

The example I usually use is book clubs. I really want to be a member of a book club, I love talking about books and what I’ve read. Almost all of the book clubs I’ve found around here and taste-tested are full of very nice people who inevitably assume in every single participant a deistic belief system, and freely sprinkle that assumption into the conversational cookpot. I want to be able to have conversations about books, whether they be literature, scientific, philosophical, fantastical, young adult, whatever, without that assumption being made. Or rather, where the opposite assumption can be made explicit (and, thus, not really an assumption, I suppose).

I think that this is important and not something to be lightly swept aside as not really having anything to do with freethought, atheism, and atheist activism.

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