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.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (111)
sorted by:
I don't usually talk about this kind of thing - religion is a private thing, generally - but which type of atheism?
The "muh science"-type atheism that seems to have lead directly to this odd worship not of the scientific method (which would also be wrong, it's a tool, not holy scripture) but as science as a shibboleth of My Side and of scientists as the priests of this new religion is as utterly repellent to me as any preacher quoting scripture to justify some act of rank immorality.
The point about being an atheist, at least as I understand it, is to make your own decisions not to be shackled to someone else's irrationalities and biases. All the Internet Atheism crown achieved when it morphed into the "I Fucking Love Science" crowd, apparently, is to change the letterhead on the fucking page.
Church of the flying spaghetti monster style cringe edgelord atheism
And Richard Dawkins "I am literally better than you" atheist elitism
Neither grasp the concept of theology as a freedom from the indirect tyranny of man
Wash your mouth, heathen. I'll have you know I am officially ordained priest, and have my holy colander.
Seriously, it's funny how people engage in some amazing doublethink where it comes to religion: sure, the invisible godlike mass of spaghetti making decisions about the universe and guiding your life is absurd,
but
the invisible bronze-age man who talks using some tablets and/or a burning bush, whose book is forty percent is forty percent superstition, forty percent a sociological guide to a specific type of society, and twenty percent distorted historical record (and zero percent useful information, like germ theory or clean energy) guiding your life and making decisions about the universe makes perfect goddamn sense, don't you question it.
How do you not see this as nothing more then a recolored "true communism has never been attempted"?
Theology has zero basis in physical reality, except what humans do with it, and all people ever do with any sort of power, secular or ecclesiastic, is milk it for personal gain. Theology is nothing more then another instrument of governance, just another form of that "tyranny of man".
The first one, I guess. I don’t really care that much about whether someone believes in God or not but pop culture has pretty much made the Niel Degrasse Tyson/Richard and Mortimer I Fucking Love Science shit into the default position most bugmen normies take now.