Atheism’s sexual misconduct problem
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Anonymous
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Rather than be buried on the LDS thread, this topic deserves it’s own thread.
We can kick it off with this: David Thorstad, a prominent atheist, founded the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) to advocate for pedophilia and pederasty. |
Anonymous
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The head of the American Atheists group assaulted two women. AA covered it up until hours before BuzzFeed released an article on him.
“He physically pressed me to the wall and began to kiss me forcefully, grabbed my breasts and put his hand into my leggings,” she writes in the complaint delivered to American Atheists along with pictures she says are of bruises she suffered at Silverman’s hands. The encounter ended, she recounted, when she made it clear she did not consent. The second allegation relates to a 2012 incident at the annual convention of the Secular Student Alliance, an organization for secular college students, in Columbus, Ohio. Rose St. Clair, then a college student and SSA member who hoped for an internship at American Atheists, related that she met Silverman at a bar, became intoxicated and accepted his invitation to his hotel room. “I don’t believe I was in a position to be able to give consent. I was very intoxicated,” St. Clair told BuzzFeed. She maintains they had unprotected sex. “I felt my interest in working for the organization was used as a way for him to have power so that I would have sex with him,” St. Clair said. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/04/17/america...sexual-misconduct-allegations/ |
Anonymous
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And yet, the disgraced AA guy was quickly hired by another national atheist group. Prompting these comments from a black atheist woman:
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/religion-dispatches/20...l-needed-in-organized-atheism/ “Far from being a refuge from religious tyranny, mainstream atheism is just another microcosm of American gender and racial hierarchies.” “According to The Friendly Atheist blog, AAI reached out to Silverman via a friendship with a board member, then created a paid executive director position expressly for him. Must be nice. While women of color in all sectors are routinely shut out of entry level, middle, and executive management positions, white males get carte blanche, have positions of authority created for and handed to them; then receive multiple breaks and opportunities for redemption when they screw up.“ “Defining ourselves, for ourselves, as Black lesbian poet Audre Lorde once said, we’re not content to sit back and let atheism be hijacked by gatekeeping patriarchs. But AAI’s appointment of Silverman foregrounds how the cult of charismatic white male atheist leadership makes mainstream atheism an untenable space for women of color, queer folks, and progressive white women pushing back against the ritual silencing of sexual abuse survivors and business-as-usual cosigning.” |
Anonymous
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Other prominent atheists have been accused of sexual misconduct in the past few years.
Lawrence Krauss: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/peteraldhous/...theist-fired-sexual-misconduct Richard Carrier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/...-sexual-misconduct-speaks-out/ |
Anonymous
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Men (people?) who want to tell other people how to think and behave also are often sexually coercive.
In other news, water is wet. |
Anonymous
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Richard Dawkins defends “mild pedophila” again and again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/richard-dawkins-defends-mild-pedophilia-again-and-again/311230/ |
Anonymous
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I thought I was losing my mind until I noticed that someone copied a lot of these posts from another thread.
Yes, atheists, like all kinds of people, can have a sexual misconduct problem. People in powerful positions sometimes abuse their power. It's wrong no matter who does it |
Anonymous
I wonder if there is any common characteristic among the "people" in these stories who abuse the power and commit sexual assaults and misconduct? |
Anonymous
Then why the disproportionate number of threads about Catholics and LDS? Those threads can get vicious, but here you are waving your hands about atheist abusers. |
Anonymous
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I as an atheist condemn these people any any organization that supports or enables them.
As I should. Do you agree Catholics? Will you do the same? |
Anonymous
No hand waving. Any abuser is bad -- with or without God. Unfortunately, people of god sometimes use their supposed special influence to take sexual advantage of people. Religions present themselves as being "godly" and thus above sexual sins. And some religious leaders abuse their supposed godliness to take advantage of people in their religion who think the pastor has some special connection with God. In contrast, people who don't believe in god who are sexual predators don't use God as a tool to draw victims in. They're just creeps. |
Anonymous
| Are any of the organizations these people are associated with as powerful or wealthy as the Mormon or Catholic Churches? Like yeah atheists can be predators and rapists but there’s no Church of Atheism. |
Anonymous
Catholics and Mormons I should have typed. |
Anonymous
I, as an atheist, condemn them too and ask the same question of Catholics and people of any religion. |
Anonymous
| Just read the wikipedia page on David Thorstad. What a gross, disgusting, creepy monster. |