Benefits of atheistic "evangelism"

[bandit4god]

Still lacks the "and you should too" of evangelizing.

Read closely...
- "to urge the adoption of..."
- "to attempt to sell or popularize..."

[xSilverPhinx]

If there's one thing that we could learn from the religious it is the community-sense, which really could go a long way, even if just to make people more knowledgeable about what atheism isn't (easier to do that than what atheism is), which would not mean trying to deconvert people or pushing beliefs onto others.

Atheists are one of the least trusted minorities, a huge "we exist!" campaign could be productive (many groups are already doing this) especially since people see that the average joe who they might have even thought was like them (i.e religious) because he was a good decent person is actually an atheist. He doesn't hate something which he doesn't even believe in, but just has better arguments and very good reasons for not accepting theist's claims.

[Tank]

Still lacks the "and you should too" of evangelizing.

Read closely...
- "to urge the adoption of..."
- "to attempt to sell or popularize..."

b4g
You read this closely. One more patronising post like this and I'll restrict your access to 'Getting to know you' until you can convince me you are not here to troll. Your replies today have been way out of line and this is the last straw.
Tank

[Sandra Craft]

Still lacks the "and you should too" of evangelizing.

Read closely...
- "to urge the adoption of..."
- "to attempt to sell or popularize..."

Read closely yourself.  Neither of these were what Stevil was suggesting.

[Whitney]

Whitney, for what little I know about you, I really admire you and what you are actively doing.

thanks!

Have you posted your logo anywhere?

http://fofdallas.org/images/logo1.png

[Recusant]

Wow, that's a great logo! Fine use of the freethought pansy, and I love the way you've also worked a circle of people into the design. Excellent work, Whitney!

[bandit4god]

Still lacks the "and you should too" of evangelizing.

Read closely...
- "to urge the adoption of..."
- "to attempt to sell or popularize..."

Read closely yourself.  Neither of these were what Stevil was suggesting.

These are the very definition of "promote", a word stevil used many times.

[Whitney]

bandit....it has been made expressly clear that no one here wants to actively recruit new atheists and that to "evangelize" someone means to try to recruit new members to a belief.  So, what's the problem?

[Stevil]

Still lacks the "and you should too" of evangelizing.

Read closely...
- "to urge the adoption of..."
- "to attempt to sell or popularize..."

Read closely yourself.  Neither of these were what Stevil was suggesting.

These are the very definition of "promote", a word stevil used many times.

I'm not sure why people are getting worked up. It is no big deal if we evangalize Atheism or not.
Myself, I was talking about promoting what the term means and showing some facts that may debunk some preconceptions people have. I am not promoting a recruitment drive, although there would be nothing wrong with doing so.
I really do see Atheism as being for tolerance and appreciation of diversity, not for converging people into one thought pattern.

[Stevil]

Love the logo Whitney, I could see myself wearing a gold, greenstone or bone carving pendant of that.
Even a discrete logo on a shirt or hat or bumper sticker, if done with style it could be fun.

[xSilverPhinx]

I'm just sitting here thinking about how nice that would look on a black shirt. 

[Xjeepguy]

I'm just sitting here thinking about how nice that would look on a black shirt. 

This.

I'd buy one.

[Whitney]

we actually do have a cafe press store set up  http://www.cafepress.com/fofdallas

but we also need to add more options to it; especially for anyone that doesn't want fofdalla.org really big.