I'm not surprised that at least one secular humanist sees something to dislike about the current fury, and I may myself borrow his point that Events of the (sometimes distant) past which nobody can change are being used to justify dangerous trends in the present. A new kind of society is being solidified on the back of exposing abusive priests, one in which scaremongering supersedes facts, where people redefine themselves as permanently damaged victims, where freedom of thought is problematised, and where parents are considered suspect for not adhering to the superior values of the atheistic elite.
I would be surprised to find that this essay changed anyone's mind, however, or that using the above point in conversation did anything but buy me some time off from hearing about it from my friends. (None of my offline friends are Catholic.)
I have already been forced to defriend one person who had bought into the NYT pack-o-lies (I won't dignify it by the term "narrative"). Things WILL get worse before they get better.
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Date: 2010-03-29 07:36 pm (UTC)I would be surprised to find that this essay changed anyone's mind, however, or that using the above point in conversation did anything but buy me some time off from hearing about it from my friends. (None of my offline friends are Catholic.)
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Date: 2010-03-29 09:06 pm (UTC)