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Box 163418, Sacramento, CA 95816, e-mail: is a Bright? At the Brights web page it is explained: “A Bright is a person whose worldview is naturalistic–free of supernatural and mystical elements. However, just as there is no one gay organization, the Brights Movement is not an organization it is a constituency which, if it grows large enough, may one day influence society in a positive direction of increasing tolerance and liberty for both Brights and non-Brights.įor more information go to or write Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell at P.O.
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In fact, Dawkins, Randi, and I were the first to sign up on the spot at the conference. The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the philosopher Daniel Dennett, and the magician and paranormal debunker James Randi have all announced publicly that they are Brights.
#COME OUT OF THE CLOSET YOU ARE GAY MEME FREE#
Over the past couple of decades, gays have won significant liberties for themselves, starting with gay pride and gay marches that have led to gay rights.Īnalogously, instead of calling ourselves nonbelievers, nontheists, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, free thinkers, humanists, and secular humanists, it was suggested that we call ourselves Brights. Their solution was to change the label to a more neutral term–gay. Paul and Mynga noted that, by analogy, homosexuals used to suffer a similar labeling problem when they were called homos, queers, fruits, fags, and fairies. Essentially, I explained what I meant by these terms, that labels are arbitrary and loaded (“atheist” has all sorts of pejorative baggage in our culture), and that in any case there are so few of us in America who do not believe in God (between 5 and 10%) that to squabble over which nonbelievers in God should be allowed in the club is doing the same thing so many nonbelievers dislike about religion, along the lines of the Baptists and Anabaptists quibbling (fighting, really, to the point of splintering the church) over when baptism should be employed. Since I did not strictly identify myself as an “atheist,” apparently some felt that my participation at the conference was not welcome. (I did not know about the new meme about to be introduced.) It seems that this promoter had received some flack from some Atheist Alliance International organizers over whether or not I should be allowed to speak because I wrote in How We Believe that as a statement about the universe (there is a God or there is not a God) I am an agnostic (in the sense Huxley meant the term when he coined it in 1869, meaning that this is an insoluble question), and as a statement of personal belief I am a nontheist. Interestingly, this proposal followed my own lecture at the conference, in which the promoter had encouraged me to address the “labeling” problem in a slightly different context.
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The new meme was introduced at the Atheist Alliance International conference last April in Florida, by Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, from Sacramento, California. august 28, 2003Īs many of you are aware by now, there is a movement afoot to introduce a new meme into our cultural lexicon to substitute for the melange of descriptive words such as atheist, nontheist, agnostic, nonbeliever, infidel, heretic, skeptic, humanist, secular humanist, free thinker, and the like.
#COME OUT OF THE CLOSET YOU ARE GAY MEME FOR FREE#
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