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In reply to the discussion: I am not religious. Can you please categorize Atheism into a "race"? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)where they are coming from.
I was banned from the LGBT group for refusing to throw Jimmy Carter under the bus, and you know it. Let's not play games on that score--anyone can look at the archives and see exactly what I said about a man in his nineties who was raised as a southern Baptist. Telling tales doesn't help you win your argument. In fact, it makes you look like you're short a point or two. Turns out, his point (and mine) was right--the Supreme Court did reach that tipping point, without Texas, and it didn't matter what the "states righters" said about the topic of marriage equality. Funny how Jimmy Carter had the EXACT same POV on this issue as Bernie Sanders, but Carter got tossed under the bus, and Sanders did not.
There may be no rules to generic atheism, but the SA community has guidelines. The fact that they have no doctrine or dogma is in their Ten Commandments, which I listed elsewhere in this thread. But they are 'radically inclusive,' they are open and accepting, they believe in celebrating the one life we know we have and they believe in community outreach. These are good beliefs, IMO--not something to scold or carp about.
Maybe you should check them out, and report back as to how "awful" they are for the "Atheist Not-a-Religion" set.