With the help of Alex Cue, we have some mocked up designs for the different colors (and a mock-up for the back...give me your thoughts). Here they are:
Prayer Won’t Help When You Live with HIV
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Positively Aware is an HIV treatment education journal. I’ve never read it,
but given their latest cover, which asks “Can faith help sustain us when
living...
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I applaud the efforts of Trevor, Cory, Seth, Stef, et al, in organizing people, leading people, and overall just creating opportunities for others to be involved. This is commendable and I always have enjoyed and even promoted this talented leadership pool.
However, one thing about the t-shirts this year (the Clemens quote), is that it shows UNIFI is not a group which supports all thinkers; it is overtly exclusive. At least people then know you do not tolerate faith.
I ask then, what is the opposite of faith? In other words, does this really get anyone to think about anything? If someone does claim belief, they will write off your shirt as just inflammatory.
At least the last T-shirt (Question even the existence of a god, or something like that) was a thoughtful statement; a command to think.
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODS!
//I ask then, what is the opposite of faith?//
Reason.
To implore one to question their faith is to implore one to think.
Arguably the best way to get people to question their beliefs is to challenge them. "Faith" is an often ill-defined, taken for granted word that many people use yet few could describe. Proposing a different definition of "faith", like the shirt does, challenges people's lazy preconceptions and makes them ask themselves, "What does faith really mean?" In that way, I think that this new slogan maintains the proper tone and intelligence of the previous two. Kudos UNIFI!
Some people might argue that even asking people to question their faith is an act of "intolerance", which I think dilutes the real definition of the term (from dictionary.com):
//1. illiberal, narrow, proscriptive, prejudiced, biased, dictatorial, totalitarian. Intolerant, fanatical, bigoted refer to strongly illiberal attitudes. Intolerant refers to an active refusal to allow others to have or put into practice beliefs different from one's own: intolerant in politics; intolerant of other customs. Bigoted is to be so emotionally or subjectively attached to one's own belief as to be hostile to all others: a bigoted person. Fanatical applies to unreasonable or extreme action in maintaining one's beliefs and practices without necessary reference to others: a fanatical religious sect.//
How does any of that describe the quote on the new shirts?
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