tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750867104959940237.post6268524203660935110..comments2010-12-17T14:25:04.389-08:00Comments on F-Word's Blog of Excellence: Dialogue of Reason: Science and Faith in the Black CommunityF-Wordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487467968339540148noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750867104959940237.post-89332624227397869272010-11-08T10:08:26.569-08:002010-11-08T10:08:26.569-08:00I'm seeing that my request to resist universal...I'm seeing that my request to resist universalizing & polarizing generalizations about religion and people's of faith is not being observed. The panel represented multiple offenses (as was voiced by the Howard student in her question/commentary at the end), and certainly, the label "Free Thinkers" (with its implicit presumption that only secularists can be "free" in their thinking) can (and should) be problematized 'til the cows come home for how alienating and insulting it is. We must develop the skill of holding the mirror up to our own fundamentalisms and acknowledge how our convictions (particularly if they are immovable) hold us back from being in true solidarity with the diveristy of the world's peoples. -JordanaF-Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487467968339540148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750867104959940237.post-56856811140269873092010-11-07T13:57:48.231-08:002010-11-07T13:57:48.231-08:00-Emily-EmilyF-Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487467968339540148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750867104959940237.post-58447361753476204692010-11-07T13:57:27.754-08:002010-11-07T13:57:27.754-08:00Thanks for posting this Josiah! I watched the whol...Thanks for posting this Josiah! I watched the whole lecture, as I tend to enjoy these types of discourses. Every one on the panel was amazing and spoke coherently. I agree that the history of black freethinkers has been shushed out of existence by the churches. Well, that goes for most freethinkers throughout history, really. Anyway, I feel that the oppressions perpetuated by certain factions of religions has gone by un-noticed in most feminist discourse's. We should incorporate mono-theistic religiosity into our feminist discussions, because it is a major driving force of oppression and privilege at the global scale.F-Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487467968339540148noreply@blogger.com