Atheism+

[jack]

Several blogs have been talking about the recent coinage Atheism+.

Atheism+ is safe space for people to discuss how religion affects everyone and to apply skepticism and critical thinking to everything, including social issues like sexism, racism, GLBT issues, politics, poverty, and crime.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/08/20/is-atheism-plus-just-secular-humanism/
http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/08/27/atheism-plus-the-site-is-here/

Obviously you can't say whether it's useful or successful at this point, but I appreciate the effort of having a banner for the wing of atheism that is explicitly skeptic, but explicitly inclusive, even if you don't have the "extremely analytical emotions-don't-exist" geek language down pat.

Comments

[liv]

I'm cautiously optimistic, and I do hope it gets some traction. I see a lot of my social group are trying to get some of the same things out of what is currently called the skeptical movement as I get out of religion (which doesn't meant that skepticism is a religion, that's not my point). So if the movement can find ways to create communities that are inclusive rather than supporting the unequal status quo, that could be really valuable.