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?
Atheism+ happened.
And a few jackasses adherents existing in public were enough to bring down a historical pillar of Leftism?
No, vicious propaganda deployed by a larger, better connectected, more popular movement was enough to bring down a historical pillar of Leftism. A few jackass adherents existing in public was merely the casus belli.
Obviously. But what and why? What is the gain in removing atheism from Leftism? What is the endgame?
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Take a look at the demographics of atheist communities in Western countries. Comparatively young, white, male.