#AntiReligion
#AntiTheism
#Atheism
#SecularHumanism
#Skepticism

So, what should non-believers call the Sunday that Christians refer to as "Easter"?

I decided on Keaster; as in kiss mine!

In my newest blog post, I write about eating lunch at the office alone.

** Sad desk salad and secular humanist grace **

What is the place of the potato in the great chain of being?

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-03-31-secular-humanist-grace/

#blog #blogging #food #philosophy #capitalism #potato #SecularHumanism #gratitude

The Defiance of Salman Rushdie - The New Yorker

https://apple.news/nowPlaying/AxkLv6ZcfRw2S19EdcPvg0A #SalmanRushdie #Secularism #SecularHumanism #ReligousTerrorism #atheism #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomFromReligion #AppleNews

Hello Mastodoners,

Evidently we need to keep introducing ourselves here to start building up those networks again.

I am Tim –– #ecologist, #ornithologist, and Associate Professor at #OklahomaStateUniversity and current #President of the #wilsonornithologicalsociety.

I dig #birds, #landscapes, #science #HigherEd #CriticalThinking #SecularHumanism, #mentoring, #DEIJ, etc. Still active as @Seiurus on another site.

My frequent furry sidekick is Nellie.

I will follow you!

@martinmeany do you have a definition / view on #SecularHumanism

When I got comfortable and left religion, I liked what #secular #humanism seems to be

I’m not sure about #agnostic or #Athiesm yet

@AtheistAdvocate @nekodojo @CaptMorgan @dusnm @wiseguyeddie

I've been an atheist for a long time, but I don't put it on my profile.

It's not that I'm bashful about it, but that it seems like a strange thing to identify as (per the aunicornist thing).

I'd sooner label myself as a secular humanist, which conveys the atheism but says something about what I am, not just what I'm not.

#atheism #SecularHumanism

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@godpod atheist, and a huge fan of yours! #SecularHumanism

#WIP #CrossStitch #LGBTQIA2SPlus #SecularPagan #SecularHumanism #SecularSpirituality #SecularHolidays #Yule #Handmade #FiberCrafts #NoBuyBlackFriday

It's very easy to retrofit mythology, lore, and conspiracy into a framework when there is no room for breadth of nuance.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

Again, as an example: Many things O'Hair did and said were absolutely indefensible. And those terrible things have nothing to do with prayer or religion in public schools or official government activities. But I didn't know about a lot of it, or was skeptical of its truth for awhile, because I was socialized into 1-dimensional thinking.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

To be clear, I still consider myself to be an atheist. There are as many ways to be an atheist as there are ways to be human, and really that's true of anything. But, evaluation and criticism can (and should) be based on more than a single, pass-fail criteria.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

I was conditioned to believe this was the nature of all paradigm; you are always at war with the opposite of whatever is most important to you. It took a long time for me to unpack that. And it took longer to understand than it did to unlearn it.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

Everything was all or nothing. No room for discussion, question, or nuance. Only joy in the fall of perceived enemies. As an example: My youth group held prayer for the comeuppance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair after she had been kidnapped. We had a pizza party when it was confirmed she'd been murdered. The war jargon and imagery are not analogies.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

In my early 20s, after I came to accept and lean into my loss of faith, I went through a prolonged period of strident, overarching "strong" atheism. I know many people who experienced the same. I've always thought it was rooted in bitterness and youthful search for identity. While I still think those are factors, this morning it occurred to me that it might have more to do with how the evangelical church taught me to believe.

#RandomThoughts #UnfinishedThoughts #Exvangelical #SecularHumanism

Re-sharing interests, since I moved. I'm all over the place: #SocialJustice, #ReproductiveJustice, #Deconstructionist theology, #MoralPhilosophy, #SecularHumanism, #MediaLiteracy, #TV crit & appreciation, #art appreciation, #weather, surrealism & absurdism, history. Also your everyday stuff: #music (so much), #food (all of it), #books (mainly non-fiction), #film (all genre, but especially #docs, docs, docs!). Et cetera, I suppose. #introduction