Secular Student Alliance takes aim at Christian 'privilege,' partners with Satanic Temple

[Michie]

Is Christianity privileged in the public square?

That’s the assertion of the Secular Student Alliance, the nation’s largest organization representing what it calls “secular and nonreligious students,” which last Wednesday announced recipients of its 2025 Secular Activist Scholarship, recognizing campus and community student activists who are “pursuing excellence in their academic studies.”

Spotlighting young leaders challenging what the group describes as “Christian privilege” in educational settings, SSA’s scholarship is aimed at advancing “secular values,” but not necessarily at the expense of promoting atheism or any other worldview, according to SSA Executive Director Kevin Bolling.

“Secular values mean supporting a civic culture grounded in reason, evidence, equality, and freedom of conscience,” Bolling told The Christian Post last Thursday.

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Secular Student Alliance takes aim at Christian 'privilege,' partners with Satanic Temple

The nation s largest organization representing what it calls secular and nonreligious students is spotlighting young leaders who are challenging what the group describes as Christian privilege in

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[Fervent]

"Secular values" is such a ridiculous concept...where are these values supposedly drawn from? If they're supposedly not promoting a worldview, then what is the common strata for the values that they are intending to promote? The fact that they feel the need to hide behind a feigned neutrality just shows how bankrupt the concept of secular values really is.

 

[Colo Millz]

... where are these values supposedly drawn from?

From Enlightenment rationalism, which has produced only monsters.

 

[Fervent]

From Enlightenment rationalism, which has produced only monsters.

My question was more rhetorical, because they claim they're not representing a particular worldview as if the values they want to push were simply pulled from thin air as brute facts. The fact that they're likely serious and believe their values are just basic human values and not specific to their worldview just shows the extent that their worldview is privileged in public discourse.

 

[RileyG]

Ugh Lord have mercy!