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  • twitter [any]
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    3 years ago

    :jesse-wtf: Why is this site so anti-atheist, I legitimately have never seen leftists anywhere, online or off, so consistently eager to defend religion's honor

    Is it a phase thing? It must be a phase thing

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I also see it a lot on Twitter.

      The anti-atheist backlash eclipsed the actual Reddit fedora atheists a long time ago. I can't remember the last time I saw someone express any atheist sentiment online without someone else invoking the word "fedora".

      And yet I'm lead to believe that these Iraq War-era New Atheists are just swarming around everywhere.

    • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      For the record, I'm an atheist myself, and I generally agree with the idea that religion is more of a coping mechanism for living in hellworld than anything else.

      I was also heavily involved in interfaith groups and religious studies in college, and I know a great many religious people who were also very progressive-to-leftist that would be alienated by a lot of the rhetoric around the place/status of faith in communism. I admit I've probably posted shit like this one too many times, but also some of the responses it gets are extremely dismissive and off-putting. The good news is that I've seen less of that here as time goes on. This site's done pretty well with purging a lot of the Reddit brainworms that a lot of us (myself included) had initially. I'll shut up about it now.

      edit: Someone else also posted about how religious texts (specifically the Bible) contain some actual rhetoric and tools for combating the powers that be that could be useful for bringing people of faith into the fold. I think it'd be unwise to ignore that.

      spoiler

      also dunking on New Atheist nerds is extremely cathartic for me :sicko-blur:

      • twitter [any]
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        3 years ago

        Churches have functioned as spearheads of political repression and reaction since humans first invented priestly castes, but an atheist was being rude to me online so who can really say who the real bad guys are??? :shrug-outta-hecks:

        • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          The church as an institution of political power (and in general) can fuck all the way off. That's not what I'm referring to.

          I'm in full agreement with the Lenin quote posted below.

      • Dewot523 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        No, it's actually that a lot of the folks on this site are so extremely online that they've either gone through an obnoxious Reddit atheist phase or are MUCH more likely to be mistaken for a Reddit atheist than a Christian, so they develop a sort of Revulsion of Small Differences to make it very clear there's a lot of air between them and the Reddit atheists they totally don't have anything in common with, as they type on their ideologically-based Reddit spinoff using the tone of that place in a lot of their posts.