Rum wrote:What exactly are you doing all this for LP?
Thank you for asking!
There are these things called integrity, credibility, truthfulness and honesty, and they kind of matter to me. Or to completely co-opt the words of Greta Christina (who happened to be speaking about Edwina Rogers here):
Or Ophelia Benson's words - again co-opted:I want the public faces of atheism to represent the values of the atheist community. I want the public faces of atheism to freaking well share the values of the atheist community. Including, above all else, the values of honesty and truth. I do not want the public image of atheism to be a series of Machiavellian plays for power at the expense of the things we actually care about. I do not want atheism represented by someone who is so transparently willing to deceive, dodge, and flat-out lie.
My emphasis.We’ve been around this mulberry tree before, more than once, when wrangling with all the people who rush to give The Atheist Movement advice on how to be better at manipulating and managing and persuading. We have this thing about truth and honesty and accuracy and not bullshitting.
RDFRS is a mess and an embarrassment, with a few redeeming features. There's bullshit, stupidity, dishonesty, deception, cynical manipulation, conflicts of interest and intelligence-insulting PR drives coming out of it. And given all that it's founder claims are the aims of the charity - there is almost enough hypocrisy to sicken Ken Ham.
Does that get my blood running? Yeah… Yeah, it does, actually…