I sometimes think that atheists take on too much. By that I mean, we, as a group, tend to want to take on every issue that affects any minority group and have lost focus on what being an atheist is all about.

Before anyone flames me, I think it’s okay for atheists to have interests in other Social Justice issues. But none of those issues move forward the cause of what being an atheist is all about. The problem with being involved in Social Justice is that people place their own priorities as to what  they believe every other atheist should support.

We’ve been through that in the last few years and  all any of that did was divide us and move us off the original goal: keeping religion out of public life. I don’t actually care if there are people that have religious beliefs, I just don’t want those beliefs to become  law.

I also don’t really have anything invested in any of the Social Justice issues that seem to be prevalent with atheists today. Feminism? What exactly is that today? I used to think I knew what it was, but today? I’m not so sure its something I would readily support. LGBT issues? What exactly are those issues? I can’t seem to find anyone that is able to definitely tell me what those issues are currently.  As an atheist, why should I become involved in either of those?

I certainly care about civil rights for all, but I cant seem to come up with a definition, from some other atheists, as to what those Civil Rights should be.

Atheism has become a hodge-podge of social issues that has morphed from just agreeing that all people, no matter race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation  should be treated equally to, well, I don’t know what to call it but it certainly has nothing to do with atheism.

I think that atheists need to get back to activism, but activism that promotes the removal of religion from the public square.  Whatever other issues anyone desires to be active in, is a bonus, for them, but has nothing to do with atheism.  Please stop trying to tuen atheism into something that it never was and shouldn’t be.

Why am I writing about this? I know I’m going to receive some negative comments, but it doesn’t matter.  I’m writing about atheist activism because as far as I can tell, it no longer exists. Atheists have become no more than any other progressive group of ideologues and maybe, just maybe, that’s why no one pays attention to any of us anymore.