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Atheists and conflict resolution (view source)
Revision as of 15:55, September 24, 2019
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The website Atheism and the City [[Cancellation of the 2018 atheist conference in New York City|wrote about the 2018 cancellation]] of the first major [[Atheist conferences|atheist conference]] to be held in [[New York City]]:
The website Atheism and the City [[Cancellation of the 2018 atheist conference in New York City|wrote about the 2018 cancellation]] of the first major [[Atheist conferences|atheist conference]] to be held in [[New York City]]:
{{Cquote|But none of this is going to happen now because the event has just been canceled. The reasons why are complicated, but it started out difficult enough. The atheist community has splintered into a million shards in recent years. There are the [[Atheist feminism|atheist feminists]] and the atheist anti-feminists, the [[SJW atheists|social justice warrior atheists]] and the anti-social justice warrior atheists. The pro-[[Political correctness|PC]] atheists and the anti-PC atheists. There are pro-[[Trump]] atheists and anti pro-Trump atheists. Atheists are split over [[GamerGate|gamergate]], elevatorgate, whether we should organize, or whether we should even call ourselves atheists at all. The divisions go on and on.<ref>[http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2018/01/the-atheist-conference-is-dead.html The Atheist Conference is Dead]</ref>}}
{{Cquote|But none of this is going to happen now because the event has just been canceled. The reasons why are complicated, but it started out difficult enough. The atheist community has splintered into a million shards in recent years. There are the [[Atheist feminism|atheist feminists]] and the atheist anti-feminists, the [[SJW atheists|social justice warrior atheists]] and the anti-social justice warrior atheists. The pro-[[Political correctness|PC]] atheists and the anti-PC atheists. There are pro-[[Trump]] atheists and anti pro-Trump atheists. Atheists are split over [[GamerGate|gamergate]], elevatorgate, whether we should organize, or whether we should even call ourselves atheists at all. The divisions go on and on.<ref>[http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2018/01/the-atheist-conference-is-dead.html The Atheist Conference is Dead]</ref>}}
The ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'' says about schisms within atheism: "The persistence of internal schisms and regular outbreaks of in-fighting within the atheist movement also ensure that much energy is effectively wasted on parochial concerns and further undermine attempts to establish a genuine sense of group cohesion."<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537903.2014.945722 Divided We Stand: The Politics of the Atheist Movement in the United States] by Steven Kettell ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', Volume 29, Issue 3, 2014</ref>
The ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'' say that internal divisions within the American atheist movement have to do with:
{{Cquote|internal divisions within the movement around issues relating to goals, strategies, and direction. These can be seen most notably in debates about the formation of a collective ‘atheist’ identity, in disputes about the effectiveness of confrontationalism and accommodationism, and in concerns about the movement’s ethnic, racial, and gender profile.<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537903.2014.945722 Divided We Stand: The Politics of the Atheist Movement in the United States] by Steven Kettell, ''Journal of Contemporary Religion'', Volume 29, Issue 3, 2014</ref>}}
== Notes ==
== Notes ==