Inspired by some of the discussion in this thread. I don’t think it’s appropriate place for that discussion there, but hey why not have a separate thread for it

If I think religion is not good in general, am I Reddit and cringe and basically Richard Dawkins?

  • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    To me it’s the difference between “There is no god.” and “If you believe there is a god then you’re stupid.” or the only slight variation “I believe there is no god because I’m smart” typically dressed up as “I believe there is no god because I am an entirely logical and rational being and well-versed in all the different logical fallacies, anyone who believes there is a god is not as logical and rational and either needs to be educated or is incapable of understanding the high forms of logical calculus I perform.”.

    The smugness and showing off ones atheism as a sign of superiority is what I typically mean when I talk about “reddit” atheism.

    There also is a very strong islamophobic undercurrent, where they are trying to justify their racist feelings of superiority towards all the MENA countries by being “equally” as derisive of christians (a.k.a. republicans/red states). I have never seen a reddit atheist extend good-faith, it’s always dunking or debate-broing to flex how “logical” they are.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 day ago

          It wasn’t far off from the much more successful (but still cringe) pitch for “singularity” cultists to brand themselves as capital-R “Rationalists.” They may as well have called themselves the Very Smartists. big-yud

          • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            1 day ago

            oh, that’s when the gamergate crowd discovered atheism right? I tuned out after that. The Amazing Atheist was just peak cringe, but him going white supremacist (I forgot how open it was) turned it from i-cant to what-the-hell

            • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              1 day ago

              It’s not quite lined up chronologically; a lot of Reddit New Atheists were that first then became freeze-gamergaters when their “debunk creationism” Youtube heroes chudded out.