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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Mmmmm no, you do not grasp the magnitude of the situation.
The behaviors I saw from some of those parents was genuine emotional (and in quite a few cases, physical) abuse. Like, you don't even know.
And it weren't the fukkin amish. It was the evangelicals.
So true. I saw friends get disowned for thinking they could come out to their parents about having questions re: their faith in Christianity, attempted suicides hushed up because their PeRfEcT good Christian missionary family couldn't have that sort of news ruining their reputation, I was censured for having doubts of my own, I could go on about this or that story as could many of others.
There's a lot of truth to the things that led many Atheism+ people away from the faith and it's really telling that—not Christians—but a freaking psychologist who isn't even Christian is the guy getting a lot of people back to the faith(myself included).