Assuming I understand the meme, I find the opposite to be true.
Young person is raised in a highly insulated and dogmatic faith. Wants out. Finds company with anti theists and gets the dogma and camaraderie they got in the old faith. Eventually they realize there are tons and tons of people atheist and otherwise who don't think belief should be some type of blood sport.
I feel like this is way oversimplified. You can easily share some of these views while completely rejecting the other ones, and still be anti-theist.
I have no idea what this meme format means, but it's crazy to me people can blind themselves to the most fundamental truth about human existence with delusionals of eternal life where everyone you have ever met is singing kumbaya.
When we indoctrinate our youth into rejecting their sences and logic, how can our species ever expect to progress? Such a shame when you consider how special it is that this 3.4 billion year old blue ball of soup has been sustaining the evolution of carbon based self replicating automata for unfathomable periods of time. Now we carve wishful statues in lieu of embracing our own existence.
This can be taken many ways, both good and bad—depending on where you’re at.
That doesn't cut it; a purely semantic argument from an academic stance is cowardly and impotent. All "gods" and their related cults are an intrinsic obstacle to human development as a species. Don't even get me started on the systemic exploitation of the mentally/emotionally vulnerable, or unchecked sexual predation on children. Fuck your religion, every religion. Full stop.
Yeah. if they picked one and gave it mouth service and are anti all the rest. Well then that would be perfectly hunky dory. How dare they deny all rather than deny all minus one!
No need for the atheist/anti-theist words to say that social media is cultivating indifference and hatred.
"It's not that you don't believe in God, it's that you think you've outsmarted them, and by extension everyone who does believe in them."
An atheist does not believe in god, gods or other claims of supernatural phenomena. You can't outsmart what doesn't exist. Believers in those things are people who have been misled but that alone doesn't make them stupid.
What is this quote in context? Why do you believe this is what atheists believe enough to reiterate it. I don't think I've outsmarted anyone. I think some people believe in different things, nobody can be certain of anything other than holy words were written by men and not gods. How would you reconcile your belief that you have outsmarted non-believers. This is not deep.
You might not think you think that, but if you engage as many reddit sceptics do then you certainly act it. Mere belief and faith alone is not what makes organized religion a regressive agent in the west today, and yet I am still horrified to witness people be talked down to by self titled atheists, their beliefs mocked and belittled, their values treated as backwards even where they may be more progressive than the self proclaimed atheist's.
Most importantly, this strand of "atheism" warrants dismissal because it is not actual non belief, it is just negating it, anti-belief. There is none of the work to deconstruct the values ascribed by the mythology, to understand them, and to reach new conclusions in the process of leaving faith, only the effort to call everyone else an idiot like the grown-up version of the brat that delights in ruining santa for younger kids. You haven't left the faith you claim to, you've just stopped doing the rituals of it and given yourself an air of intellectual superiority for supposedly beating religion by not believing the mythology as literal history.
Anti theists are basically what they claim they aren't. Religious radicals who want to force their opinion of religion on others. Basically atheist jihadists. It's cute.
FFS. Tell me you're a fucking idiot in too many words? Check. 🤦🏽♂️
You're not wrong at least for me.
I do want to force my ideologies. Because my ideologies don't result in persecution of belief.
You can believe whatever the fuck you want but in my ideal world your beliefs end at your doorstep. Outside of your home or preferred church your beliefs means nothing to anyone. So all this external preaching and symbolism would be outlawed.
It’s just never going to happen. None of the religions I’ve been in contact with are limited to “asnwering questions we don’t have answers to so you can live happily”, they always add “…while you give me some money/power”, which requires the religion to spread, so it’s incompatible with the followers keeping it “inside their home”.
