Yeah that's what he said about 10 years prior to when I asked him that. Now he believes some things that are extremely irrational and is validated in those beliefs by other mutual IRL atheist friends.
He was a normal STEM rationalist atheist South Park lolbert type 20 years ago. University engineering departments were filled with them. Thought radlib activism was stupid because the people who were pushing it frankly weren't very smart. Hated Christians for much the same reasons. Big fan of Richard Dawkins. He wasn't radical, and he could've just done the whole "I still believe the same things I did 10 years ago; it's the whole rest of the world that went fucking crazy" thing a lot of people here did (and still do).
Around the 2015 timeframe he had changed. I mentioned Dawkins in passing because I knew he liked the guy and he laid into me about how much of an asshole Dawkins was. I'd make fun of these stupid feminist sorts expecting him to join in, and he'd defend them. I think that was one of the things that prompted me to ask him that question, because I noticed those changes in his personality.
As I say, I'm not really religiously partisan, except I recognize there aren't nearly enough right-wing atheists as I could entrust my life; and politically I have more in common with the Christians. If lines are drawn in the sand, you may eventually have to decide which is the lesser of two evils: woke atheists or non-woke Christians. I have a pretty good idea of where every atheist I know would stand, and I know where I would stand.
Yes we have the luxury of fence-sitting today, but that may not last forever.
Yeah that's what he said about 10 years prior to when I asked him that. Now he believes some things that are extremely irrational and is validated in those beliefs by other mutual IRL atheist friends.
He was a normal STEM rationalist atheist South Park lolbert type 20 years ago. University engineering departments were filled with them. Thought radlib activism was stupid because the people who were pushing it frankly weren't very smart. Hated Christians for much the same reasons. Big fan of Richard Dawkins. He wasn't radical, and he could've just done the whole "I still believe the same things I did 10 years ago; it's the whole rest of the world that went fucking crazy" thing a lot of people here did (and still do).
Around the 2015 timeframe he had changed. I mentioned Dawkins in passing because I knew he liked the guy and he laid into me about how much of an asshole Dawkins was. I'd make fun of these stupid feminist sorts expecting him to join in, and he'd defend them. I think that was one of the things that prompted me to ask him that question, because I noticed those changes in his personality.
I'm sorry too.
As I say, I'm not really religiously partisan, except I recognize there aren't nearly enough right-wing atheists as I could entrust my life; and politically I have more in common with the Christians. If lines are drawn in the sand, you may eventually have to decide which is the lesser of two evils: woke atheists or non-woke Christians. I have a pretty good idea of where every atheist I know would stand, and I know where I would stand.
Yes we have the luxury of fence-sitting today, but that may not last forever.