Peter, when you drifted away from the atheist movement, do you feel like your values and beliefs changed, or was it more about unsubscribing from newsletters and prioritizing different blogs and events?
I can’t speak for Peter, but I also drifted away from caring much about atheism/humanism. In my case, I found that EA gave me all the rationality and caring-about-people that I’d been looking for, without the discussion of religion or focus on religion-related issues (which often felt repetitive or low-impact). My values and beliefs didn’t change; I just found a better way to fulfill them.
This raises a question: Is there something EA gave some of the people who left, which they then found more of in some other place?
Peter, when you drifted away from the atheist movement, do you feel like your values and beliefs changed, or was it more about unsubscribing from newsletters and prioritizing different blogs and events?
I feel like my values and beliefs changed to some extent. I no longer feel like reducing the influence of religion is an important thing to do.
I can’t speak for Peter, but I also drifted away from caring much about atheism/humanism. In my case, I found that EA gave me all the rationality and caring-about-people that I’d been looking for, without the discussion of religion or focus on religion-related issues (which often felt repetitive or low-impact). My values and beliefs didn’t change; I just found a better way to fulfill them.
This raises a question: Is there something EA gave some of the people who left, which they then found more of in some other place?