Mar 23 2012

Reason Rally to be a ‘Woodstock for atheists’

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I will be attending part of the Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC tomorrow and so blogging will be light over the weekend. The national media have started covering the event. (See here and here and here.)

This NPR report features fellow FreethoughtBlogs blogger Greta Christina and also David Silverman of American Atheists who thinks that within a couple of decades secularism will be the norm even in the currently god-infested USA.

I agree with him that the collapse of religion is far more imminent than most people think and wrote a series of posts titled The End of God where I marshaled the evidence in support of this thesis.

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mnb0

March 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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By comparing with Woodstock you mean that the main goal of the Reason Rally organizers is to make money? Like it was in 1969?
Consult For Love and Profit, The Economist July 9th 1994.
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feralboy12

March 23, 2012 at 1:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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Everybody: don’t take the brown acid.
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Pteryxx

March 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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The NPR reporter Barbara Hagerty used the term “Woodstock for atheists”, no telling where she got it:

Thousands of people are expect to descend on the Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to celebrate not believing in God. It’s being called a sort of “Woodstock for Atheists,” a chance for atheists to show their power in numbers and change their image.

The “Reason Rally” could attract up to 30,000 people; organizer David Silverman says it marks a coming-of-age for nonbelievers.

“We’ll look back at the Reason Rally as one of the game-changing events when people started to look at atheism and look at atheists in a different light,” Silverman says.

Was it supposed to be a dirty-hippies dogwhistle?
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'Tis Himself, OM

March 23, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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I hope those going to the rally have a good time. Because my wife is recovering from surgery, I have to stay at home. I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow while I’m sailing.
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  mnb0
  
  March 23, 2012 at 6:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
  
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  I wish your wife a smooth recovery.
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Dan-o

March 23, 2012 at 8:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

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I pray for a safe journey for all attending and ask my family and friends to do the same.