Not defending new atheists btw

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Religion should be debated for the simple reason that it’s false

    This is pure idealism, which is funny because you would think a group of people who profess disbelief in deities and other metaphysical manifestations (the soul, heaven, hell) would be materialists. At a basic level, it assumes religious people act the way they do because of faulty beliefs when it's actually the reverse: religious people join the religious group and through continual social interactions, slowly begin adopting religious beliefs, including faulty beliefs they would've thought was complete bullshit when they were nonreligious.