From the New York Times:
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout.
The problem was not that the group, the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, had attracted an outpouring of hostility. It was the opposite. An overflow audience of more than 100 had showed up for their most recent public symposium, and the board members discussed whether it was time to find a larger place.
And now parents were coming out of the woodwork asking for family-oriented programs where they could meet like-minded nonbelievers.
On May 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Why is it that so many secular humanist groups have become like 12 step programs? Why all the need for “support”? As a liberal Christian I feel no animus toward atheism or agnosticism (and, indeed, enjoy discussing and debating with folks who are non believers, that is, when their hostility toward and emotionalism against religion doesn’t get in the way.