Mar 25, 2017 01:49 AM
Is The Alt-Left Creating Conservative Atheists?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dogmadebate...e-atheist/
EXCERPT: Perhaps Liberals don’t want atheists on their team anymore. In fact, more nonbelievers and the religiously unaffiliated are identifying as Libertarian, Independent, and even Conservative than ever before.
Why? Because the vast majority of skeptics are reasonable people, who quickly identify hyperbole and extremism, and avoid it like the plague.
Many of us grew up in very religious households, watching the sheep mentality destroy relationships because facts didn’t matter, and emotional appeals were rampant.
We’ve rejected the ultimate authoritarian dictator, in exchange for the realization that most issues contain more nuance than is visible on the surface. So we want more information based in reality, with as little emotion, hyperbole, and extremism as possible.
The way liberals are headed right now, by eating our own, and thriving on in-fighting, is driving reasonable people away....
(Progressive black female community): Ethnic double standard on women's issues?
Only Black People Showed Up To The DC Town Hall Meeting To Address The Surging Number Of Missing Black And Latina Girls
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2017/03/o...ina-girls/
EXCERPT: Earlier this year, the Women’s March On Washington drew crowds that totaled close to 5 million attendees. Simultaneous marches were held in cities worldwide as women from all walks of life banded together to protest against various women’s issues from equal pay to reproductive rights, which have long been central to political debate. But where were these women when DC’s town hall meeting to address missing black and latina girls was taking place? Nowhere in sight....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dogmadebate...e-atheist/
EXCERPT: Perhaps Liberals don’t want atheists on their team anymore. In fact, more nonbelievers and the religiously unaffiliated are identifying as Libertarian, Independent, and even Conservative than ever before.
Why? Because the vast majority of skeptics are reasonable people, who quickly identify hyperbole and extremism, and avoid it like the plague.
Many of us grew up in very religious households, watching the sheep mentality destroy relationships because facts didn’t matter, and emotional appeals were rampant.
We’ve rejected the ultimate authoritarian dictator, in exchange for the realization that most issues contain more nuance than is visible on the surface. So we want more information based in reality, with as little emotion, hyperbole, and extremism as possible.
The way liberals are headed right now, by eating our own, and thriving on in-fighting, is driving reasonable people away....
(Progressive black female community): Ethnic double standard on women's issues?
Only Black People Showed Up To The DC Town Hall Meeting To Address The Surging Number Of Missing Black And Latina Girls
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2017/03/o...ina-girls/
EXCERPT: Earlier this year, the Women’s March On Washington drew crowds that totaled close to 5 million attendees. Simultaneous marches were held in cities worldwide as women from all walks of life banded together to protest against various women’s issues from equal pay to reproductive rights, which have long been central to political debate. But where were these women when DC’s town hall meeting to address missing black and latina girls was taking place? Nowhere in sight....