bcmystery [writing on David Silvermans abortive visit to CPAC] March 9, 2014 at 6:25 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment The other day when Stephanie posted about the existence of the atheist movement, I remember getting to the end of it and thinking she’d made her point and that I didn’t dispute it, but so what? The atheist movement is a thing which contains Thunderfoot and Justin Vacula, and for that matter, Dave Silverman. Those are people with whom I have only one thing in common. What I don’t have in common with them are values which are fundamental to who I am: liberalism, a belief women are people, that laissez-faire economics cause widespread harm, etc. And, sure, someone will jump up to defend Dave Silverman as not being Thunderfoot or Vacula. But here’s what I know about Dave Silverman: he proclaims his gun ownership as a value signifier and throws women’s choice under the bus to make points with CPAC assholes. He might be mostly all right in some interpersonal, hang-at-a-conference-bar-with-him sense, but he also chose to thrust himself into the national conversation this weekend by standing tall with those who vehemently oppose basic human decency. His atheism doesn’t mean shit next to that. I have more in common with religious liberals than I do with secular conservatives. What Dave Silverman did this weekend was make the atheist movement less relevant to me. Perhaps he’s okay with that. Honestly, with people who say “the Democrats are too liberal for me” at the helm of the movement, I’m fine with it too.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:21:50 +0000
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