Icarus wrote:
> Are there any groups which actively promote atheism in the same
> kind of way that religious groups all promote their particular
> brand of belief? I know there are organisations like the
> National Secular Society which have practical aims such as
> seeking to eliminate inequality and privilege on religious
> grounds, but I don't know that they do much to promote atheism as
> a Good Thing in and of itself. This also raises the question:
> Is it likely to be a bad idea to encourage people to discard
> religion without giving them some other positive but
> non-religious philosophy such as Humanism to replace it?
Can somebody explain to me why people want to _promote_ atheism?
Roy
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