Something that’s has irked me for some time now is how many people latched onto the Atheist movement as an edgy teen but now look back on it in reverence and not shame. This seems to be a common theme in academia and is prevalent even in communities like this one. The lamentation of the “golden-age” of atheism is peak hubris. Dawkins, Hitchens, and crew were deconstructionists of the critical theory variety. Their lives were consumed by the need to disprove God and religion. However these were the shortsighted desires of pseudo-intellectuals, they accomplished nothing productive, and if anything, opened the door for the screaming children that replaced them. I don’t think Dawkins, in his wildest dreams, ever saw his fall come from his own hubris. The intellectual argument over dismantling religion somehow disproving the existence of a god is what fueled the SJWS and their own brand of hubris in the early 2000’s. BTW Dawkins, this is what happens when you remove the “tumor” of religion, you hack. As you see today, Dawkins was swallowed by the stupidity he helped bring about, the Maximilien Robespierre of the modern era, begging for trannies to not cut off his head.
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I'm agnostic. Neither parent was religious and have been in social groups with secular people. Holy shit they hate religion. They blame it for everything. I come at it and end up defending Christianity just from what I've absorbed through the culture.
For one thing, these fucking secular younger folks are often techie futurist dicks and pseudo-intellectuals themselves. These fools hold advanced degrees and have done a lot to insulate themselves from less successful people. As they're Democrats this means most black people too but they'll be so compassionate when they say that isn't the case. They believe that tech will save us all and like to have circlejerk thought experiments where they divorce themselves from the real world, god, religion and play the What If game.
Now back to reality it's not really a defense of religion but if there's a ton more of these guys and they're running shit. The dumbest thing they could do is turn their back on God then create a supercomputer more powerful than the human mind. Humanity needs religion because technoslavery seems to be the only other option. None of these types ever ever talk about Christian charities or any of the good done in the name of religion.