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this thread makes me embarrassed to be an atheist

xxp s'okay

"but you are 100% being culturally insensitive in a way that diminishes Judaism and Islam more than Xianity."

So does one need to be a religious scholar and constantly take the time to include every single religion in the discussion to not be culturally insensitive? Christianity is by far the dominant religion in my culture. I haven't diminished other religions, that's already been done for me.

It's often useful even necessary to conflate disparate and contradictory traditions for the purposes of talking about more than one small thing at once but it's definitely worth being mindful of what you're doing and that its p weird to conflate all the strands of any religion when you think about it

if you're going to take the time to actively slag off on a religion, or anything else really, it's good to at least know what you're talking about

Yes but the bar of "knowing what you're talking about" is set by religious people. I have zero interest in the intricacies of their silly beliefs. I don't need to know every little detail of juggaloism to form an opinion of it and mock it.

I mean you had me at "I'm positive their is/are supernatural being(s) that created the universe". It usually gets sillier and more bizarre from there, but I find the starting point worthy of being dismissed

*there

And mind you your point is the exact same one made by gun nuts

Find myself tapping the sign


I tried to flag one of silby’s posts but got an error message saying “where’s the lie tho”

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Theres all sorts of fine distinctions within categories like "atheist" and "gentile" that will inevitably escape the ppl that use them but they're still useful, as ever the key q is what are the differences that make a difference

xp: Bearded guy on a throne goes back to Zoroastrian depictions of Ahura Mazda.
https://www.crystalinks.com/ZHoldingSunDisc.jpg

If anything, the Islamic prohibitions on depicting the divine are far more conducive to belief in modern life. Bearded guy is just fodder for Pythonesque mockery.

I don't need to know every little detail of juggaloism to form an opinion of it and mock it.

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This would be a grave mistake, as juggalos are generally extremely dope and right about things.

Zeus was also a supreme male god who was often depicted as bearded and enthroned.

I'm not unfolding 2200 posts but I'm just going to say silby probably otm.

Everything was fine until we stopped worshipping the Löwenmensch figurine and the Venus of Willendorf.

In truth, if you were to unfold those 2200 posts and read them, mixed in among the zings and mutual incomprehension you'd find some very interesting and competent discussion of a subject that is rarely approached in that spirit.

I still worship Willendorf girl. Well no, but I do have the replica keychain.

This would be a grave mistake, as juggalos are generally extremely dope and right about things.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit)

one might even say they are... 2 dope

https://i.ibb.co/Lp8r1Nw/FB-IMG-1607113210785.jpg

Thoughts? A friend I respect posted this but while I'm usually down with criticizing toxic masculinity, this feels more like "my atheism is more pure than your atheism", which doesn't make me feel comfortable.

I also don't know how much of atheism is one fluid conscious choice. I didn't leave the faith in one pronounced moment, I drifted over time and realized that I wasn't going to church, and despite me calling myself agnostic, that I actually felt confident that there was nothing out there. It wasn't a solid moment in time and my sentiment against religion became less passive the more toxic Christianity became in this country.

I'm probably overthinking it, though.

any attempt to generalise by race is doomed

These seem like extremely lazy generalizations to me.

There is a subcategory of 'euphoric', Dawkins-toting, Mountain Dew-drinking atheist neckbeards who definitely fit the bill, but these kinds of generalizations aren't exactly helpful, are they.

"don't have spoons"?

Is it a reference to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

Thanks.

wonder when Tumblr discourse will die. possibly never

I don’t know where that tumblr post is supposed to lead. Okay, it’s different?

I didn’t lose any faith, didn’t break from any kind of religion so ‘my atheism’ is different from anyone who did, regardless of ethnicity/gender/etc., right? So what am I supposed to do with that? (I mostly just don’t ever think about god, gods or atheism.)

If a group of non-believers got to that point because they were being more overtly oppressed by the hypocrisies and belief discrepancies in the bible, in the end all atheists are non-believers. There really isn't any value in dunking on r/atheist caricatures when what we all have in common is a rejection of the idea of deities/spirits. Those discrepancies in the teachings of any specific religion are covered within that common rejection despite anyone's personal experiences with them.

i'd say there really isn't any value in recognizing that all non-believers can tick a categorical when social reality is structured by shades of domination, but then i'd be doing a pale imitation of, say, noodle vague who is always so rich on these kinds of topics and much better than i am at countering silly hogwash while also being charitable.

this feels more like "my atheism is more pure than your atheism", which doesn't make me feel comfortable

you could try starting a hashtag #notallcishetwhitemaleatheists, but somehow I don't think it would sit well.

it's probably simplest to try to quiet your discomfort by telling yourself the chance is quite high that they will simply do that 'human thing' of holding two contradictory ideas at the same time, and what is absolutely true for them in one frame of mind will be replaced by a different, more flexible, truth at other times.