re: #320 Gus

To me it looks like they’re trying to eliminate, say, sexism within the atheist community be rebranding atheism as either “Atheist+” or “New Atheism”. These groups will then not allow any sexists into their community thus being able to come to the conclusion that sexism doesn’t exist in the atheist community. Yet, we were just talking about sexism in the leftist community WRT to Julian Assange, Galloway, et al. We’ve also been talking about sexism within the conservative community. Sexism isn’t an atheist problem it’s a human problem. Isolating ourselves is not going to help. At this time, there will always be sexists in all communities.

Are they saying that sexism doesn’t exist in the atheist community, or that they just don’t want to allow sexists to hang out in their corner of it?

Could be either, mind. I don’t know much about atheist organizations (my husband is a solitary atheist), and I can’t make heads or tails out of their Venn diagram of the universe.