Reddit reviews Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All- and What We Can Do About It
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> Can we reasonably expect a united front from such a tenuously connected movement?
Sean Faircloth is doing his darndest to make this a reality; you may be interested in his book Attack of the Theocrats, wherein he articulates a political plan. Given the herd-of-cats mentality of atheists, I have no idea if this will succeed. One can hope but I'm not betting on it.
There are people here who like what I write, and will tend to be rallied into a bit of positive action, which may be limited to Reddit, or change their behavior in public - I have little way of knowing. But I'm not really trying to be a demagogue here. I'm just fighting back against those people who, for whatever reasons, support the religious notion that atheists should STFU and be respectful of religions and their proponents.
I'm not asking people to be disrespectful or to troll their FB friends. I am, however, asking for respect for my (and our) freedom of speech, and to interact with the religious on our terms. I find that those people swinging the "respect" club around are rarely willing to grant it themselves.
Agree.
More comments for the OP:
Basically, the OP is in a country with religion receding in the public space, and the US is a country with religion growing in the public space. What works in one, doesn't necessarily work in the other.
Remember, one of the houses of legislature in one of our states literally passed a bill this week that says if your religion says someone else is bad, it's fine for you to bully them, but everyone else needs to be nice! Luckily, it seems after the huge outcry from the rest of us, that version is unlikely to be signed into law, and will be modified to remove the exemption.
If you want to know what it's like over here, I recommend reading The Anointed (and I've heard good things about Attack of the Theocrats but haven't read it yet).
I appreciate your perspective, and we hope to be in a place where that sort of strategy is possible in 10 years or so. Even then, it will still take all kinds.
Sean Faircloth wrote a great book that details this sort of thing http://www.amazon.com/Attack-Theocrats-Religious-Right-Harms/dp/0984493247/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347115194&sr=1-1&keywords=faircloth
http://www.amazon.com/Attack-Theocrats-Religious-Right-Harms/dp/0984493247
Too much for her?