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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So your problem is with Leftism, not Atheism. Cool.
Atheism is not an ideological dogma. It literally can't be. It literally isn't well fleshed-out enough to even warrant being identified as an ideology or philosophy. The rejection of your particular God doesn't make abortion moral, and it doesn't make Communism ethical.
Or do you want me to blame every single death tacitly associated with Christianity, or even something as simply "family values" to the deaths of murderous regimes that may have at one point and time espoused them? I assume not.
Talk to someone who is one.
No, it just challenges the order of society when you use the excuse "do what I say because God said so".
If your society is built on "just do what the guy who says he knows what God wants says", then you didn't build a society worth surviving anyway.
Oh no! Not Protestantism!
Clearly Catholicism will save us from Leftists despite being the origin of Social Justice.
Or maybe you're going to explain how Islam will save us instead.
Or better yet, your version of Socialism that's totally not Socialism will totally work this time when you do it.
Good luck with that. Just don't involve me in that.