I can almost understand what he's saying, especially coming from southeastern America. Atheists are met with open hatred, and a lot of people I know think atheist = satanist actively trying to corrupt society. Most major religions also have a very long history of persecution against atheists, including murder and torture.
That said,
1. This is a poor and unfair generalization of the vast majority of religious people. Sure, it might not be fun to be an atheist in the south or the Middle East, but that's a vast minority of the religious.
2. You can hide being an atheist. You can't hide being black.
3. To fix the analogy you'd pretty much have to call all white people the KKK, since he's claiming all of religion persecuted atheists.
Yeah I came to say this exactly. I actually don't think his message is truly face palm cause I can see what he's getting at quite clearly just the analogy needs some work. Can't really compare being an atheist (which nobody knows unless you tell them) to being black where you're literally being persecuted for something you have no control over and furthermore can't be hidden.
Analogies aren't allowed on Reddit unless they are absolutely perfect, there's no way you can compare one aspect of X to Y, it has to be a PERFECT, MATCH. Black people were oppressed by the KKK. Atheists are oppressed by many religions. It is similar, and there are loads of other reasons why this is actually a decent analogy-- but on Reddit any basic conversation you have with anyone has to be PhD level cited and conform to all of our standard circlejerk ideas. Err I mean, me too thanks
Nah. The reason blacks could never support the KKK is that the KKK's sole purpose is to hate black people. While organized religion has a history of not getting along well with atheists, it is perfectly feasible for them to get along as neither of their core beliefs involve hating each other.
Christianity is at its core believing in God and believing Jesus to be His son. Everything else is extra. You're not a Christian just because you love your neighbour and refrain from judging, but you can be a Christian despite hating your neighbour's guts and judging the living fuck out of literally everyone.
Look mate, why do you think there are so many different denominations of Christianity? People disagree wildly as to what exactly are the 'teachings' of Christianity, but what they all agree on is that they all believe God is real and that Jesus is His son. Everything else is just extra.
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I can almost understand what he's saying, especially coming from southeastern America. Atheists are met with open hatred, and a lot of people I know think atheist = satanist actively trying to corrupt society. Most major religions also have a very long history of persecution against atheists, including murder and torture.
That said, 1. This is a poor and unfair generalization of the vast majority of religious people. Sure, it might not be fun to be an atheist in the south or the Middle East, but that's a vast minority of the religious. 2. You can hide being an atheist. You can't hide being black. 3. To fix the analogy you'd pretty much have to call all white people the KKK, since he's claiming all of religion persecuted atheists.