• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    but come on. For every Christian church that does this there’s 9 that are horrible and are currently working to make the lives of nearly everyone who isn’t them a lot worse.

    Can much different be said about :reddit-logo: New Atheists and their devotion to Sam Harris and other chud cult of personality leaders, or for that matter the mainline ideology's worship of tech billionaires and their desire to enslave/slaughter the rest of us because we're "NPCs" to them?

    How many of them see the extermination of Muslims, among others, as some "logical" solution, just like Sam Harris and other New Atheist idols do?

    How many of them on :reddit-logo: alone are lanyard carrying military-industrial complex contractor war criminals with extra steps, by their own admission? :obama-drone:

    "Dear Muslima" was penned by Richard Dawkins and "Elevatorgate" wasn't long ago.

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Comparing online racist nerds and one of the most powerful institutions in the world is a bit silly though don't you think.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Considering how much military power is currently involved regarding the people that pay those online racist nerds, and what they are paid to do, no, it's not that silly.

        • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          I'm sorry I don't understand what you're saying. You're saying the military are paying reddit atheists to spread propaganda? I don't get it

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'm saying that many of them, by their own admission, have jobs with the US DoD.

            • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              Ok but so do a lot of evangelicals, and they actually have the backing of churches. Like the Christian churches have historically been some of the most corrupt institutions ever and are literally indoctrination machines. Reddit atheists are a recent movement of fascist-adjacent nerds with a few YouTubers as their figureheads. They're clearly not on the same level

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Ok but so do a lot of evangelicals

                I never said otherwise.

                My point is that it's an arrogant mistake to assume that an absence of religion is some sort of ideological protection against being a monster.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                That was a side matter, but still a concerning one considering how much misogynistic (and Islamophobic) bullshit he stoked in his followers.

    • Goblinmancer [any]
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      1 year ago

      Tbf the problem with :reddit-logo: atheist is the :reddit-logo: part. Also because many only care about vidya games; like early on they hate christian conservative because conservatives wants to ban vidya games and later on they hated feminists out of paranoid belief that Anita Sarkeesian wanted to ban vidya games.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Also because many only care about vidya games;

        They care about a whole lot (especially regarding who should be subjugated or killed) but the video game part just gets them started.