Notes as I read CFI opening speech

[mollydot]

Comments

[msstacy13]

Hey, that ~is~ rambling...
It pretty well puts the "bling" in rambling...

But, yeah, religion is more a tool than a cause.

I'm kinda hazy on the rest of it...

[mollydot]

Does exactly what it says on the tin :-)

[biascut]

similar pronouncements could have been made, almost surely were made, across the globe, from one to two to three thousand years before Paul write those words. And similar pronouncements were common at least up through about 1800 in the Christian west

Oh bless. 1800, that year when Western Christianity decided women's voices were as important as men's. Uh.

(I really like your point about mentioning silencing of women only to talk about how wrong it is to silence men, and that silencing of men is more important than silencing of women. But I can't get past the stupidity of "yay, Christianity got fixed in 1800! Brown people religion, when you gonna catch up?"

[mollydot]

Secular conference, so religion bad is possibly a given. I'm pretty sure racism isn't a required part of secularism (and I'm not sure anti-religion is either!)

[holmesfan]

Was the lecturer 'for real'? Does s/he actually get paid to spout this rambling garbage? No wonder you felt the need to analyse this so-called speech. The more I read the angrier I got. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[mollydot]

It was a "welcoming speech" for a conference. So, unlikely to have been paid specifically for this, but he is CEO of the group running the conference. Dunno if that's a paid position.

Thanks! It is pretty infuriating. There's a whole blow up about it. But there's some who can't see why there's anger.