Sssh, honey. Jonah Hill is busy playing video games and denying the existence of god. Because god won’t let him be his authentic self.
By I found this in my twitter feed.
I can’t decide if it’s a great thing or the greatest thing currently on the Internet. One thing I do know is that Jonah Hill is a.) very rude and b.) dates women who seem to have a disorder that makes them unable to discern seasons.
No, but seriously, this is just awful in so many ways I hardly know where to begin snarking. (I do wonder if anyone at Reason knows that girls/women also play video games. Probably not.)
So instead of doing that, I guess I’ll talk about something a little more substantive: organized atheism taking up social causes. The skeptic/atheist blogosphere has been slightly abuzz with the topic lately.
To sum things up, some prominent members of the community think that taking up social causes will benefit it in two ways: 1.) it will draw more people of color/women/people who feel similarly disenfranchised by the community to atheism 2.) it will drive out the riffraff. (By riffraff, I, of course , mean young misogynists libertarians.)
I think the argument that atheism, technically, has little to do with social causes–outside of making sure people remain free of religious burden–is sound. It’s just that I can’t think of a downside of taking them up anyway. It seems like a win-win proposition to me.