Ron Lindsay has a post on divisiveness in the secular community, which is attracting a hailstorm of comments.
I don’t altogether agree with it. I agree with the normative part but not entirely with the descriptive part. For instance…
…if hate-filled comments and threats to women have not been expressly called divisive, it’s because such conduct does not threaten to divide the movement. It has already been repudiated, both implicitly and explicitly, by many, if not most, of the organizations in the movement.
But that doesn’t do it. It has not already been repudiated, even implicitly, by some prominent individuals in the movement. To put it another way, there are some prominent individuals in the movement who promote it … Read the rest
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