• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Reddit Atheism devolving in to anti-Muslim bigotry was very disappointing. I thought we were really gonna kill God that time. : |

    Because Imperialism is the cosmic background radiation of imperial core (aka "first world") ideology. And from British imperialism was inherited the idea of the "civilizing mission." And with the "war on terror" came the sudden but unsurprising defection of imperial core atheists from secularism more generally, to anti-muslim bigotry specifically. They joined hands with the Christian Neoconservatives and said "even though we don't believe in Jesus, we are culturally Christian" and "Islam never had a reformation unlike protestantism." and "Christianity is more progressive than Islam even though both are wrong." and other such nonsense copes to justify their bigotry.