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When atheist couples disagree about organized secular activism

My partner and I are both committed atheists but we keep finding ourselves in heated arguments about whether organized atheist activism is necessary or whether it undermines the very rationalism we claim to value, and it's starting to feel like we're questioning each other's intellectual integrity rather than just disagreeing about strategy.

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Two people who share fundamental beliefs about the absence of gods are discovering that atheism itself contains multitudes of philosophical positions that can create unexpected rifts.

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“Where Are You with Atheism — philosophical traditions?”

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