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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Yes, a critical theorist would have no interest in whether or not the claims of Christianity are true or not. Their criticism would be that Christianity creates oppressive power structures. For example, R. Tolteka Cuauhtin (one of the people involving in creating California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum) wrote that the spread of Christianity is Latin America was an act of "theocide" and a way to establish white supremacy.
"This middle-eastern religion that preaches that all men are equal will surely keep the white race on top!"
Meanwhile Adolf Hitler openly lamented the fact the Europe wasn't Islamic.