guys but like…not every vocal atheist is an m.r.a dudebro with a goatee and a fedora and a hard-on for richard dawkins. plenty of people have a legitimate reason for mistrusting and criticising religion and religious practices (i.e. abuse survivors, lgbt people, people from former or current colonies, many women all over the world) and atheism might actually be important to some people as a space for resistance. which is not to say i advocate black and white thinking and i think all criticism of religion should be sensitive and placed within careful consideration of context (i.e. people not using “atheism” as an excuse to be islamophobic, anti-semitic etc.) but religions are social institutions that still exert a lot of power and we should let oppressed people have safe spaces in which to criticise them
I’m still trying to understand how the Left started hating atheists, associating Atheism with being anti women’s rights, and consider religious people as a morally superior group?
Like, what the fuck? What happened to the god-hating liberals my (abusive) Christian parents despised?
You may try to resist religion, but know that God resists back.
Atheism had some pretty dreadful internal politics disasters. Honestly, the big issue was the one that has plagued revolutionaries since Satan himself: Once they had finished throwing off obedience to Christ, they argued over who the next target should be. The internal inability to banish sexual abusers was also a problem.
Ultimately, it kind of split, between the partisans of Pride and Vanity and those of Perfidy and Rebellion. The latter faction no longer emphasizes their atheism.
I think you are a bit misunderstood about atheism. It’s not about throwing off obedience to Christ. I think there’s an assumption most religious people have that atheists are specifically fighting against their beliefs, where they are not even the core target, and it’s kind of incidentally happening.
Also
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Do you really want to talk about the inability to banish sexual abusers? This is the topic you want to bring up? Are you sure?