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CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not true. As a panentheistic polytheist I feel entirely comfortable affirming (or at least being open to) the existence of literally any noncorporeal entity you can talk about. I just might not have any interest in engaging with that entity.

CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah to be honest I just didn't feel like digging into the nuances. There is atheism (nonreligious), and there is Atheism (religious). And to be clear, that's totally fine. I have nothing against a/Atheism, only anti-theism or any other form of religious exclusivism.

CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Somebody else already posted the Wikipedia link here about state atheism. Atheists are no more innocent than other people.

Maybe it's radical, even unfathomable; but it's almost as if the only pathway with any chance of peace is one where enough people can come to recognize that every. single. person. has their own set of beliefs, and the only kind of accord that has any chance of working for everyone, is one that actively supports diversity of belief.

CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes it is.

CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

If you believe that your religion is the only valid one, and that the others need to go away, then you are as bad as an evangelical. Anti-theists are just the hypocritical mirror image of evangelicals.

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Atheism is fine. Antitheism is bigotry. (lemmy.world)
 

No one is free from criticism. Harmful ideas should be condemned, when they are demonstrably harmful. But theist beliefs are such a vast range and diversity of ideas, some harmful, some useful, some healing, some vivifying, and still others having served as potent drivers of movements for justice; that to lump all theist religious belief into one category and attack the whole of it, only demonstrates your ignorance of theology, and is in fact bigotry.

By saying that religious and superstitious beliefs should be disrespected, or otherwise belittling, or stigmatizing religion and supernatural beliefs as a whole, you have already established the first level on the "Pyramid of Hate", as well as the first of the "10 Stages of Genocide."

If your religion is atheism, that's perfectly valid. If someone is doing something harmful with a religious belief as justification, that specific belief should be challenged. But if you're crossing the line into bigotry, you're as bad as the very people you're condemning.

Antitheism is a form of supremacy in and of itself.

"In other words, it is quite clear from the writings of the “four horsemen” that “new atheism” has little to do with atheism or any serious intellectual examination of the belief in God and everything to do with hatred and power.

Indeed, “new atheism” is the ideological foregrounding of liberal imperialism whose fanatical secularism extends the racist logic of white supremacy. It purports to be areligious, but it is not. It is, in fact, the twin brother of the rabid Christian conservatism which currently feeds the Trump administration’s destructive policies at home and abroad – minus all the biblical references."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/5/4/the-resurrection-of-new-atheism/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/2/21/can-atheists-make-their-case-without-devolving-into-bigotry/

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