I already said it a few times but I'll say it again once more: those "random atheists" are examples of knee-jerk derisive hostility toward religious people being ill-founded, especially when it comes to class-conscious attempts at solidarity. Being atheist is far from a guarantee that someone isn't a reactionary or worse.
If you want to score some philosophical victory on how categorically wrong religious people are as a group, it'll likely be a pyrrhic victory where lots of potential comrades are put off by the "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole" effect that tends to come from such efforts.
I don't disagree with you, except to say that alienating them from the start with :reddit-logo: tier self-congratulatory smugness and mockery instead of winning them over as a demographic over time (while having protective measures against religious bullshit infiltrating the levers of power) is a mistake.
I already said it a few times but I'll say it again once more: those "random atheists" are examples of knee-jerk derisive hostility toward religious people being ill-founded, especially when it comes to class-conscious attempts at solidarity. Being atheist is far from a guarantee that someone isn't a reactionary or worse.
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If you want to score some philosophical victory on how categorically wrong religious people are as a group, it'll likely be a pyrrhic victory where lots of potential comrades are put off by the "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole" effect that tends to come from such efforts.
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I don't disagree with you, except to say that alienating them from the start with :reddit-logo: tier self-congratulatory smugness and mockery instead of winning them over as a demographic over time (while having protective measures against religious bullshit infiltrating the levers of power) is a mistake.
were they really, if they were put off by this sort of thing?
Yes, actually.
People don't usually start as full fledged leftists. Most people here that told their own stories started somewhere else.
Being smugly hostile toward religious people is an arrogant and self-defeating strategy in the long run.