What if they gave an atheist rally and nobody came? From the blog The Friendly Atheist we find out what happened at Reason Rally 2016 in Washington DC:
Where Was the Crowd for the Reason Rally?
No official crowd estimates have been released. But even in the early afternoon, when the crowd was likely at its peak, nothing I saw suggested “15,000 to 20,000” in attendance, as the organizers told Religion News Service. I’d put the range at about half of that, but we’ll see.
Did something go wrong?
Let me say up front that I don’t think this is *that* big of an issue. If the people who showed up had a good time and left the event energized and committed to activism back home, that’s a better gauge of success than some arbitrary attendance figure. But a low turnout still takes a lot of the air out of what was an otherwise great event.
So let’s talk about what may have contributed to that.
Go here to read the rest. Never believe your own hype my friend, and never drink your own Koolaid. The comboxes are a hoot. It is oddly reassuring to see atheists get along as poorly in comboxes as Catholics often do!
“Oxymoron” is not really the right word, but it does seem at least incongruent to me, to consider activism along with atheism. I always want to say, “so what’s your point?”
.Anzlyne, I made that joke once before to an atheist. They’re giving the line of “atheism isn’t a religion any more than ‘off’ is a TV channel” to which I replied, “what are you activism-ing for?”
Don, how DARE you suggest I read the comments. I mean their height of comedy was “reichwinger” and the complete lack of self-awareness…
I head that the real opposite of Love isn’t Hate, but Indifference. I suspect the same is true of Faith. It isn’t Atheism–since that requires a belief in something, even if that some thing is in fact nothing.
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Indifference on the other hand? I have to get out of bed for Church on Sunday. If I’m a good Atheist, I have to get out of bed on Atheism Rally Day. But if I’m indifferent to it all? I can hit the snooze button as many times as my cat allows me to do so (granted, that ain’t much).
I heard…
While perusing the comboxes, I was coming across many reasons why many didn’t go to the reason rally. Then it hit me. The “T” was missing. The reason rally was short a letter.
Treason rally. “Doubt is the ultimate treason aginist faith.” Poor souls. They rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial not grasping the irony.
Treason rally fits perfectly.