An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
- Gurdur
- Posts: 30
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:25 pm
- About me: Atheist.
My blog: http://heathen-hub.com/blog.php?u=1
My site: http://www.heathen-hub.com - Location: An Australian in Germany
- Contact:
An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
An Open Letter from grass-roots atheists to the 2010 Global Atheist Convention, Melbourne, Australia
Please make a Comment on that blog entry if you agree to the Letter, and please publicise it.
Please make a Comment on that blog entry if you agree to the Letter, and please publicise it.
- JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 73112
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Seems like a reasonable and common-sense message to me...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
How does one "speak for atheism?"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all,...
- Gurdur
- Posts: 30
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:25 pm
- About me: Atheist.
My blog: http://heathen-hub.com/blog.php?u=1
My site: http://www.heathen-hub.com - Location: An Australian in Germany
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Mind if we argue that one out some other time? Seems to me a practical, everyday reading of the phrase you quote is sufficient to the day thereof, and it doesn't seem like a very urgent issue needing explication stat.Oster wrote:How does one "speak for atheism?"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all,...
- klr
- (%gibber(who=klr, what=Leprageek);)
- Posts: 32964
- Joined: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:25 pm
- About me: The money was just resting in my account.
- Location: Airstrip Two
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Excellent letter. Succinct and to the point.
I'm trying to post a blog comment as an unregistered user, but it doesn't accept Heathen as the first word in the phrase "Heathen Hub".
I'm trying to post a blog comment as an unregistered user, but it doesn't accept Heathen as the first word in the phrase "Heathen Hub".
God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place within organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
-
- Posts: 304
- Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:33 am
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
terrible. :pissed:
- Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
You don't mind if I speak for me occasionally?Gurdur wrote:Mind if we argue that one out some other time? Seems to me a practical, everyday reading of the phrase you quote is sufficient to the day thereof, and it doesn't seem like a very urgent issue needing explication stat.Oster wrote:How does one "speak for atheism?"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all,...
- RuleBritannia
- Cupid is a cunt!
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:55 pm
- About me: About you
- Location: The Machine
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.Gawdzilla wrote:You don't mind if I speak for me occasionally?Gurdur wrote:Mind if we argue that one out some other time? Seems to me a practical, everyday reading of the phrase you quote is sufficient to the day thereof, and it doesn't seem like a very urgent issue needing explication stat.Oster wrote:How does one "speak for atheism?"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all,...
RuleBritannia © MMXI
- Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
I disagree. "speak for atheism"? How the fuck does one do that?RuleBritannia wrote:That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.Gawdzilla wrote:You don't mind if I speak for me occasionally?Gurdur wrote:Mind if we argue that one out some other time? Seems to me a practical, everyday reading of the phrase you quote is sufficient to the day thereof, and it doesn't seem like a very urgent issue needing explication stat.Oster wrote:How does one "speak for atheism?"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all,...
- Ironclad
- I feel nekkid.
- Posts: 1398
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:04 pm
- About me: Hadean.
- Location: Planet of the Japes
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Good, good and great!
- RuleBritannia
- Cupid is a cunt!
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:55 pm
- About me: About you
- Location: The Machine
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
I think you're just arguing for the sake of it really.Gawdzilla wrote:I disagree. "speak for atheism"? How the fuck does one do that?RuleBritannia wrote:That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.
RuleBritannia © MMXI
- Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Well, you're wrong. I don't care for other people "speaking" for me. That letter is badly worded.RuleBritannia wrote:I think you're just arguing for the sake of it really.Gawdzilla wrote:I disagree. "speak for atheism"? How the fuck does one do that?RuleBritannia wrote:That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.
- RuleBritannia
- Cupid is a cunt!
- Posts: 1630
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:55 pm
- About me: About you
- Location: The Machine
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
No you're wrong, the only instance of the phrase "speak for atheim" is in the following passage:Gawdzilla wrote:Well, you're wrong. I don't care for other people "speaking" for me. That letter is badly worded.RuleBritannia wrote:I think you're just arguing for the sake of it really.Gawdzilla wrote:I disagree. "speak for atheism"? How the fuck does one do that?RuleBritannia wrote:That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.
"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all, no matter how much they claim to do so. As part of that, we have initiated a public discussion about that problem."
What exactly do you object to?
RuleBritannia © MMXI
- Gawdzilla Sama
- Stabsobermaschinist
- Posts: 151265
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:24 am
- About me: My posts are related to the thread in the same way Gliese 651b is related to your mother's underwear drawer.
- Location: Sitting next to Ayaan in Domus Draconis, and communicating via PMs.
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
The determination that some people DON'T speak for "atheism", and the implication that others DO. It would have been better to say "do not speak for all atheists" and leave it at that.RuleBritannia wrote:No you're wrong, the only instance of the phrase "speak for atheim" is in the following passage:Gawdzilla wrote:Well, you're wrong. I don't care for other people "speaking" for me. That letter is badly worded.RuleBritannia wrote:I think you're just arguing for the sake of it really.Gawdzilla wrote:I disagree. "speak for atheism"? How the fuck does one do that?RuleBritannia wrote:That's why it's an open letter, if you don't agree, don't sign, pretty simple really.
"We disassociate ourselves from all abusive individuals, whether anonymous or named, and we disassociate ourselves from all such abusive trolls who plague the media or the internet; they do not speak for atheism or for us at all, no matter how much they claim to do so. As part of that, we have initiated a public discussion about that problem."
What exactly do you object to?
-
- Posts: 304
- Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:33 am
- Contact:
Re: An Open Letter from atheists to the Atheist Convention
Will you allow comments on the blog that disagree with it, and / or would you be willing to make changes to it?Gurdur wrote:
Please make a Comment on that blog entry if you agree to the Letter, and please publicise it.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 4 guests