No matter our differences, we can all agree that belligerent midwit atheists are the most insufferable of all cunts.
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Actually, back when I used to browse places like r/atheism way back in the pre-Elevatorgate days, when the Muslim world was slowly coming online and started butting up against the collective will of the internet, I was really looking forward to (what I thought would be) its inevitable beat-down.
Instead everyone just kept shitting on Christians and making excuses for Islam. It became pretty clear to me that they mostly just hated Christians and couldn't care less about far more violent and far less tolerant religions.
this exactly
That hate boner didn't spring forth from the ether, though. Most mainstream churches in the West have lost their own way and fall for everything/stand for nothing.
If these midwits understood Islam to the same level most of us do, they would have just as much of a hate boner.
It is the same with the Chinese. Most people have no idea that China is our enemy and acts like it in overt ways (even down to their indoctrination chambers/schools). Once this bumps up against their personal world, they will give a shit... but of course it will be far too late.
That’s essentially the reason, it’s a generation(s) of mouth breathers who were told that rebelling against Christianity was how to become popular.
"Atheism" as a political movement was just another in the long line of "I hate what my Dad Loves" movements that make up the backbone of the Left.
Trannys in a lot of ways are the current form of that, just getting your rocks off by trying to upset your father in new and cruel ways.
It's no coincidence that anti-theism rose alongside Critical Theory in academia; our countries were founded on Christian values and Queering spirituality is a subtle attack on the foundation of our societies.
Their incessant proselytizing is the clue. I've never met a Christian as obnoxious as an internet atheist, and I say this as an agnostic.
I have but its extremely rare. And honestly most were probably trolling.
Obnoxious internet atheists, however, are a dime a dozen.
Is that more an internet thing or an atheism thing, though? Internet behaviour in general is very antagonistic at times because the complete detachment from personal/IRL interactions means there is significantly less risk to what someone will say and do, and the lack of emotional inflection in the language medium results in any attempts at sarcasm requiring either blatant signaling or so much scrutiny the effect withers.
Probably both.
Most people that don't have a religion simply don't care and don't label themselves anything. People who actively label themselves as atheists have religion, more typically Christianity, living rent-free in their heads. It basically is a religion of anti-religion.
Then you have anonymity making everyone a bit more bombastic and insufferable.
Government is their god, and the press are their preachers. They're a thoroughly subverted legion.
Most atheists are just unresolved bundles of daddy issues; their parents took away their Pokeman cards or dragged them to church instead of letting them sleep in on a Sunday, and they're eternally SEETHING AND MALDING over it.
Don't think it's most but those types certainly exist in spades.
I've heard this a lot but I really don't think it's true. It certainly doesn't explain the numbers. Even gen Xers weren't being dragged to church by their parents at anywhere near the rates the boomers were. As a millenial, growing up, I intellectually knew some families went to church, but I only met a handful of kids for whom that was a reality. None of those kids grew up to be anti-theists.
The fall of Christianity and the generation it was most noticable in are conflated, but you have to look a few generations back to find the actual beginning. Millenial anti-theism has its own mythology about the evils of Christianity, but none of them ever actually went to church to begin with, let alone experienced any kind of Christian "oppression" like they claimed to feel.
I have a thought on this. 1) I have never heard this expressed so thank you and I think I mostly agree, and want to expand.
I have a relative who is "atheist" . He also had a very unfortunate set of circumstances before he was even born. The most polite way of putting it is he's disabled to a point. And mentally he might not be entirely there either but that's up for debate. And I think sometimes he resents his existence. He's made remarks about abortion (he's very pro abortion). I had to remind him that by his own standards, he'd have been a prime candidate for abortion has his mom had shared his current views.
It rattled him I think.
A weeb Japanese book (Welcome to the NHK) actually approached this topic once.
In that you can find peace by believing in God and then hating him. In that, you recognize there is a God, but there is also horrible injustice and suffering so he must be an "evil God."
But because God is "evil" you can push the blame for most of life's hardships onto him. You no longer need to obsess with fairness or luck, you can just say "fuckin' God man, what an asshole" and move on with life.
Its something alien to a lot of Westerners and our monotheism, but once you've thought about it in that manner I think a lot of people would benefit from that kind of faithless religion.
The resurgence of gnosticism and its war against God of The Bible (Whom they term the demiurge*) is at the root of many of the evils of today. There is no benefit to it, only ruin. Hegel and Marx's writings are rife with references to it.
It is not nearly as alien as you would think, it pervades our pop culture. Less overtly common than traditional faith and disbelief and satanism sure. But it has absolutely been explored. If anything it's been explored to death. Yes moreso by japanese media. But the west has more than done its share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K5PGWZ0DWI
But that's just a passing reference? Ok sure, let's look at other media then. We've had larger more explicit explorations of it, from Pullman's his dark materials, to the da vinci code, that best seller. And there's a middle ground pervasiveness too, other media like the matrix borrow fundamental aspects and themes from it without being explicitly gnostic. Our media runs the gamut, from mere passing references, to borrowing themes, and outright explorations of it. Media in all genres and for all ages does this.
And that's just the obvious stuff. You'll spot their sophia/hermetic/Gospel of John conspiracies/hermes/isis/owl/minerva/wisdom/simulation/ prison/transformative/strong body-soul dualism... heresies everywhere if you learn what to look for.
Even transgenderism is built upon it. The idea that there is a 'female soul' trapped in a male body. And you'll hear them talk this way, of their female soul and spirit, even if they claim to be atheists. This whole idea depends upon some very gnostic presuppositions, and 'spiritual' ideas. The ideas that the mind and soul are entirely separable, that the body can be a prison, and that there is a force or deity putting souls in the wrong body, presumably for nefarious purposes. The whole thing is built on ancient ideas that do actually pervade our culture. How can you be born in the wrong body if there is not a 'you' separate from your body? And yet it is also 'faithless' for most, they accept these ideas without exploring the metaphysical implications.
It brings ruin.
Its the difference between saying "fuck you" to the king, versus saying "fuck you" to any individual peasant. So yeah, the monotheism likely plays a huge part.