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Three prominent atheists resigned from FFRF's Honorary Board. Good riddance. (www.friendlyatheist.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/atheism

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Jerry Coyne, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins are big mad that FFRF removed an anti-trans article from their website

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[–] IndustryStandard 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why is there a church like organisation for Atheists? And Darwin quitting because he disagrees with the gospel is hillarious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The same reason every other minority advocacy group exists: to coordinate pooling resources to protect that minority's members from persecution.

Of course in the case of atheists, that persecution isn't as bad as for other minority groups in the US, but it does exist: there is propaganda saying that atheists can't be moral and other shit like this that can seriously affect your life.

So optimally that's what the organization would fight. I know nothing about them, so I don't know where the “church-likeness” comes from that you mentioned. Care to substantiate that?

[–] finitebanjo 8 points 3 days ago

Well, FFRF runs programs actively protects Clergymen and women attempting to leave their faiths, and I can guarantee you those particular people are heavily persecuted. Especially former Mormons.

[–] finitebanjo 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In as few words as possible, it's a nonprofit org that runs some social programs like helping clergymen escape the church, a magazine, some radio shows, and they actively engages in lawsuits where religion enters matters of the state. They sued the Bush Administration for using public funds for religious communities.

Technically, they are exempt from taxes as an 501(c)(3) Organization, but they could lose that exempt status if the managers and their immediate community benefit too much from the organization in a single year, unlike religions who are tax exempt even at massive profits.

[–] PixellatedDave 0 points 3 days ago

This is interesting. I wonder if they will start another denomination? How many denominations could we end up with?!?