The last time I was in Las Vegas, I was a fundamentalist Christian, young-Earth creationist and closet homosexual. Now, over a decade later, I return to the city of sin to attend the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry as an openly gay atheist.
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“Openly gay atheist” does not necessarily imply a “positive moral progression” while demeaning everyone else. None of this is at all “moral” or even ethically desirable, no matter what your political beliefs. What it does point to, is the adoption of a constricted, political rhetoric, that trots out its politicized “virtue”, in the form of identity politics, while also creating conditions ripe for scapegoating. And as we all know, scapegoating the “other” merely (And in this case, ironically, considering the politic!) creates a victim, ripe for sacrifice.