Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins are big mad that FFRF removed an anti-trans article from their website
Three
prominent atheistsold farts who’s glory days are behind them and who refused to change and grow with the cultureresigned from FFRF’s Honorary Board.fortified their comfort zone and made themselves even more irrelevant than they already were. Good riddance.Old men yell at cloud.
Thanks to FFRF for making me aware that Pinker is a shithead, I had no idea
Years ago I followed dawkins, then I realized what a decroded piece of crap he is. So this does not surprise me in the least.
Atheists can be just as shitty as anyone else. Good riddance to these three asswipes.
The “cultural Christian” Richard Dawkins pfft. Good riddance. What a sellout.
Truly disgusting. The culture of genocide, slavery, and colonialism with only the thinnest veneer of decency haphazardly draped over it and people who could see through the big lie about it become entangled in its trappings for fucking what?
FFRF responded by taking down Coyne’s piece and publishing a hastily written letter restating their support for LGBTQ rights. The letter didn’t explain how the article got approved in the first place. The words “sorry” or “apology” or “yeah, we really fucked this one up” didn’t appear anywhere in it. Dr. Aaron Rabinowitz, ethics director at the Creator Accountability Network, told me he was hoping to see a more direct challenge to what Coyne got wrong in order to justify their removal of the piece:
This is so fucking stupid.
Like.
Objections to anything trans is almost certainly rooted in religious fruit cakery. (half baked fruit cakes at that,)
It should be self evident that they need to apologize and condemn the bigotry; and there needs to be accountability, starting with an actual and sincere apology and transparency in how this fuck up was allowed to happen in the first place, and a discussion of steps being taken to prevent it from happening again.
Damn, I used to follow Dr. Coyne’s blog and really looked up to him. That was probably more than 15 years ago though. Sad to see him go this direction. I learned a lot about biology from him, and the arguments made in bad faith about it.
He of all people should know better.
That asshole said “if I don’t like it, it’s political.”
If you want to read the original article that set this in motion, here it is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241227095242/https://freethoughtnow.org/biology-is-not-bigotry/
Anti-theism > atheism
Why is there a church like organisation for Atheists? And Darwin quitting because he disagrees with the gospel is hillarious.
The same reason every other minority advocacy group exists: to coordinate pooling resources to protect that minority’s members from persecution.
Of course in the case of atheists, that persecution isn’t as bad as for other minority groups in the US, but it does exist: there is propaganda saying that atheists can’t be moral and other shit like this that can seriously affect your life.
So optimally that’s what the organization would fight. I know nothing about them, so I don’t know where the “church-likeness” comes from that you mentioned. Care to substantiate that?
This is interesting. I wonder if they will start another denomination? How many denominations could we end up with?!?
