Ultimately, improving material conditions for people is the solution. Christianity has never exactly been good, but the US and its goals have made it what it is today. An Evangelical who just loses their faith without building critical thinking skills won't have changed much at all
Evangelicals are moral nihilists, so flipping their Atheism switch per se only lets them be self-aware moral nihilists. On the bright side, it can make them less tedious to deal with by cutting down on reflexive, "I'm not actually a bad person!" disclaimers that they package with their bigotry
The trick is to prescribe humans a nonexistent 'essence' and then fault them all for being different from how they 'should' be
That way their god gets to be benevolent only toward nonexistent people. Toward real people, that benevolence means 'punishing them out of love'
atheism is the solution
Ultimately, improving material conditions for people is the solution. Christianity has never exactly been good, but the US and its goals have made it what it is today. An Evangelical who just loses their faith without building critical thinking skills won't have changed much at all
Evangelicals are moral nihilists, so flipping their Atheism switch per se only lets them be self-aware moral nihilists. On the bright side, it can make them less tedious to deal with by cutting down on reflexive, "I'm not actually a bad person!" disclaimers that they package with their bigotry