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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That’s adorable, your first sentence shows that you still have the edgy teen mentality. You know why evangelicals were so strict? Because it has always made more successful people. You know why Jewish and Asian cultures have outpaced “whites”? While our society became indulgent and cried about Ned Flanders, they emulated him. Crying about insufferable evangelicals is what the blacks and Irish did when they wanted to drink all day and be irresponsible, feckless vagrants. So congratulations on being regressive?
But these weren't successful people.
These were white, poor, evangelical nutters who were failures in life and took it out on their kids by making their lives as joyless and shitty as theirs turned out to be.
I do not think you are familiar with the archetype of person I am describing. From what I've seen it's a uniquely midwestern phenomena.