News flash: you don't have to reply to everything on Facebook either

yes, with the greatest possible respect, there are a lot of people on Bluesky who post extremely rude (“why does anyone care about this”) or socially unaware (“i notice you casually said ‘pray for me’ but let me tell you prayer is fake…” these are often minor by themselves but it’s just constant

any mention of religion specifically gets immediately overrun by people who are posting internet atheism talking points straight out of 2004

Tbh posting that stuff under a still from First Reformed is especially ridiculous; that movie is somewhere between longest darkest night of the soul and fuck it let's just bring back Russian nihilism because who cares

Sky daddy discourse is the last refuge of those who chose to study the blade

Have those people not been completely vindicated though? People like TJ Kirk were sounding the alarm on Republicans being insane christofascists back in the 2010s, and look where we are now. I feel we owe the Edgy Internet Atheists™ an apology. They were completely correct, despite being cringe

Like, I don't think it's a coincidence that the backlash to Edgy Internet Atheists™ came as Christians tried to rebrand as "countercultural" And now you have a bunch of Gen-Z kids talking about how cool and subversive it is to be a Christian tradwife. No! It was never cool!

Granted, a lot of the New Atheist people did end up becoming right-wing anti feminist weirdos, so... It seems very few people are committed to a sincere, antitheist position.

new atheism went part and parcel with islamophobia as well richard dawkins getting exposed as a sex pest also says a lot

Yeah New Atheism had... Issues, to say the least.

I see random strangers every other day coming into my extremely leftist trans christian friends' replies to spout off about how religion is evil, bringing up child abuse as a dunk, prayer is a delusion, etc, so, yeah, imo it is a problem

the assumption that "any mention of prayer or religion" = "republican christofascists to yell at" is what's making this site unpleasant to use for people who are actual leftist activists who, like huge swaths of the historic and modern left, are religious

Whether or not huge swaths of left activists believe in something incorrect has zero bearing on... Anything? If 99.9% of leftists believed there was a giant unicorn in the sky, that wouldn't mean that there is. Religious practices and superstitious thinking cause material harm. Blasphemy doesn't.

There's a reason Marx described religion as the Opiate of the Masses... I'm not really interested in hearing about how *your* brand of left wing paganism is super based or whatever, when the American electorate are by and large, superstitious morons who are easily misled by fascist bullshit.

Being against fascism requires being against esotericism and superstition, because those are critical components to fascist indoctrination. There's a reason all the left wing antivaxxers are all QAnon MAGA freaks now, you know what I mean?

I'm not going to go up to you and tell you "your God doesn't exist prayer doesn't work haha you're stupid" because that's dumb and ineffective. But I'm also not going to pretend like religious beliefs are morally neutral and a personal choice that has no effect on your way of thinking.

I'm not gonna be holier than thou (no pun intended haha) and say I've never engaged in superstitious thinking or anything. But it's something you have to check on, because if you are willing to suspend rationality in one circumstance you can do it in any.

you literally did just change the topic of this conversation (which was whether it's good for people to barge into strangers' menchies to go off on reddit atheist rants) so you could tell me my God doesn't exist, prayer doesn't work, and I'm superstitious lmao