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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Show me where Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins were espousing Critical Theory.
That's a lie and you know it.
Your complaint is that they deconstructed a lot of the Evangelical movements particularly retarded claims. Including that Evolution is impossible, that the Earth is 6,000 years old, that the Bible is absolutely and literally factually true, etc. Their position was not deconstructing all systems arbitrarily, nor redefining all forms of religion as systems of power that needed to be attacked as revolutionaries against Capitalism. At no point did anyone in Atheist Movement work to destroy Capitalism, which is the primary objective of all Critical Theories, as they are all Marxist strategies in Rhetorical Warfare. The only time that ever started to creep in was Atheism+, and that did not come from Atheism, it came from Leftists seizing control over a successful movement, and balkanizing and re-orienting it towards Leftism. This is the very reason the Skeptic community started going after Feminism, and it is because it was the Feminists specifically that were seizing control of Atheism on behalf of Leftist causes.
Continuing on: the Atheist movement didn't open the door for Leftism in the same way that the NFL and the Boy Scout didn't open the door for Leftism. Leftism is parasitical and will always seize control of any successful social organization to expand itself. The Atheist movement did not have any sort of gate-keeping mechanism, because Atheists are no an ideologically homogeneous group beyond those who are doubtful about the existence of God for whatever reason. It was hardly a unifying force, and was easy for Leftists to target. The forces of Leftism have been continuously pushing from Academia since Leftist terrorists were made professors 50 years ago. The radical Leftist movements of the 1970's are almost where all of the current ideological strands of Leftism trace directly back to.
If you are going to complain about people and systems that opened the door to Leftism, you should be pointing the finger at "Ethical Corporations" that Milton Friedman was talking about, again, in the 1970s. "Ethical Capitalism" and "Ethical Corporations" have always been about pushing Leftism in one form or another, and they do it with hundreds of millions of dollars; and they aren't even always tied to Globalism and Fabian Socialism. They tend to do it because their Leadership are Leftist already. As Academia produced more and more Leftist radicals, these Leftist radicals were getting MBAs, or degrees in Sociology or the Humanities, that were getting them jobs in Marketing, Advertising, and HR. All the same places where Diversity graduates go as well. The Left established a criminal racket of Social Justice in each and every propaganda firm, and started pushing marketing ideas like "shopping with brands that share your values".
And again, the Globalists didn't do this because they were already in power. American Academia did this because they were turning themselves in to Leftist Madrassas. The Athiesm movement didn't Let the wolves into the hen house. The wolves were already raising the chickens. It's not really any different from GamerGate when people have to accept that GamerGate woke people up to what the Left had been pushing already. A dying industry accepted the arguments for balkanization in Silicon Valley in order to preserve their power and influence. That didn't come from nowhere.
Worse, I'd argue that Atheism succeeded in weakening the grip of the Evangelical Movement's moral authoritarianism, which is a good thing, because if you had been paying attention; the moral authoritarians of the right and left are prepared to work together. Which is what was happening in the early 1990's with Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton. The Evangelical movement of both the 1990's and 2000's engaged in repeated moral panics, aggressive moral authoritarianism, useless balkanization, a little bit of violent extremism, aggressive political indoctrination of children, and the unnecessary condemnation of innocent people. The Evangelicals had a fucking hard-on for absolutely hating Athiests. I still remember a poll done in the early 2000's that gave parents a list of people, and to choose who they would be most concerned about their kin having romantic relationships with. The most concerning was atheists... the second most concerning was terrorists. A lot of that was from the Evangelical narrative that Atheists were just physically incapable of morality. Every Atheist is, by definition, a psychopath; because how could you have morals if you didn't subscribe to Divine Command Theory? The Evangelicals couldn't even fucking argue Kant, or Christian Philosophy because they didn't even know what it was.
And if you think Christian Authoritarianism would have protected you from Leftism, I encourage you to read more about "Liberation Theology", check out how many churches are holding up rainbow flags out front, and who the fucking Pope is.
The Atheist Movement probably stopped more people from adopting Leftism than Christianity did, because those of us who are atheists that engaged in what we refer to as "Deconversion" stopped being religious entirely, and didn't adopt a new religious mindset. Christians have been adopting Marxism like many others, and Catholicism has been utterly conquered by Marxism, which isn't a surprise coming from the philosophy that founded Social Justice in the first place, and has all but lost to Marxism in South America.