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Francesca Stavrakopoulou on vegetarianism and studying theology as an atheist

The Sacred

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I Am Not an Atheist, but I Don't Like Bullies, Full Stop.

i think it's hard wired inte into us as highly social animals. We're always going to have this other worldly dimension in our lives. So religion isn't going anywhere. And we need to be able to talk to each other about it and to understand each otheru. i really do not see, i am not of the darkins kind of atheist, which i think is, a, misunderstands religion, and b, has been very heavily freighted with certain sorts of gendered and social economic assumptions and privileges that i find deeply troubling. But also, it'svery bullying, and i think it's been very em and i don't like billies.

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