Aug12007
The OUT Campaign
Come out, come out wherever you are! Have you heard about the Out Campaign? It’s becoming more and more important for us to do our patriotic duty.
Break OUT! Some might like to throw ‘coming OUT’ parties where they joyously celebrate the courage of those who have decided to put behind them the habits of a lifetime, or the habits of their ancestors, embrace a realistic and superstition-free life and Break OUT into the real world. Break OUT of religious conformity and, in celebration of your new found freedom, Break OUT the champagne.
Read the rest of Richard Dawkin’s Introduction to The Out Campaign here.
Kind of reminds me of my design (for T-shirts and accessories).
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I just found OUT about the campaign, and I believe there are many people out there who could also find OUT abOUT the awesome truth and reality that exist on the other side of dOUbT.
What about the people who are just sitting there in church or synagogue, mainly because they think they’re supposed to? What would it take to move these folks, who do not see the harm that religion does, so there’s no reason to do anything differently?
Dawkins is right: supporting Muslim apostasy is a whole different ball game. Here is where secular humanists, Muslim and other, need real courage.
“Coming OUT” needs a real media break (maybe 20/20, 60 minutes, and The Simpsons, for starters) to get the ball rolling.
And cash: the believers somehow collected $27 mil for their Museum of Creationism. That would buy a LOT of T-shirts.
shalom,
Alan
I think the majority of non-believers who attend church services probably go out of respect for their parents. Someone very close to me does and they don’t want to feel they have let down their parent (hence they remain closeted). It was significantly easy for me to come out, I have no such qualms about it, as my mom (mister jebs blog) was never hot on going to church and according to your “Thank Saturn!” post, I think you probably didn’t have much of a problem declaring yourself irreligious either. Yet there are those among us in society who are tied down to family (which is completely understandable).
So the real root of the problem facing closeted atheists is a foreboding notion of disaffection. A completely sad circumstance to find one in, I’m sure, and also one with merit.
Being an atheist seems to be vile, ungodly and inimically immoral.
the ‘out campaign’ seems like a way for R. Dawkins to sell some T-shirts. The website has been dormant for a while, it’s not going anywhere, what’s the deal?
i’m an atheist, but this whole thing seems kinda BS-y to me.
The campaign probably loses steam becuase no one supports it on a physical level… it’s time to stop waiting for the internet to do everything and get out there and spread the word about OUT!