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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Wash your mouth, heathen. I'll have you know I am officially ordained priest, and have my holy colander.
Seriously, it's funny how people engage in some amazing doublethink where it comes to religion: sure, the invisible godlike mass of spaghetti making decisions about the universe and guiding your life is absurd,
but
the invisible bronze-age man who talks using some tablets and/or a burning bush, whose book is forty percent is forty percent superstition, forty percent a sociological guide to a specific type of society, and twenty percent distorted historical record (and zero percent useful information, like germ theory or clean energy) guiding your life and making decisions about the universe makes perfect goddamn sense, don't you question it.
How do you not see this as nothing more then a recolored "true communism has never been attempted"?
Theology has zero basis in physical reality, except what humans do with it, and all people ever do with any sort of power, secular or ecclesiastic, is milk it for personal gain. Theology is nothing more then another instrument of governance, just another form of that "tyranny of man".