The trouble is consciously rejecting an idea you were raised with doesn't immediately rid you of the various biases that idea instilled in you. And nobody is more susceptible to bias than people who don't think they have any, which describes a lot of people in that sphere. This is where the absurd phrase "culturally Christian" comes from, because they realize the beliefs they were raised with are bullshit, but then they notice that that belief system has all the prejudices that they have (because they were raised with it), so rather than confronting those biases and doing self-crit (emotional self-awareness and humility ew ew gross) they instead just come up with some bizarre twisted rationalization (using FACTS and LOGIC) and accept that. The brain is very good at rationalizations like that and can invent all sorts of convoluted lines of logic if it means fitting in with one's tribe.
Reactionary atheists confuse tf out me, like bro you don't believe in hell or heaven, why are you against men kissing
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Exactly that's why the bulk of them went straight to Peterson and his fantastical dragon slaying status quo mythos shit.
The atheist road can either lead someone to Marx or it leads someone to Nietzche.
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My first time seeing this. Exactly haha.
Assuming this is the theory reading atheist road, one could become a left Nietzscheian and basically an idealist Marx.
The trouble is consciously rejecting an idea you were raised with doesn't immediately rid you of the various biases that idea instilled in you. And nobody is more susceptible to bias than people who don't think they have any, which describes a lot of people in that sphere. This is where the absurd phrase "culturally Christian" comes from, because they realize the beliefs they were raised with are bullshit, but then they notice that that belief system has all the prejudices that they have (because they were raised with it), so rather than confronting those biases and doing self-crit (emotional self-awareness and humility ew ew gross) they instead just come up with some bizarre twisted rationalization (using FACTS and LOGIC) and accept that. The brain is very good at rationalizations like that and can invent all sorts of convoluted lines of logic if it means fitting in with one's tribe.