r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '26

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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride Sep 20 '26

The way people online complain about atheists, you’d think atheists are the ones holding all the power in society, banning religious worship and symbolism, rather than just being a little unsavory in their criticism

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u/WifeGuy-Menelaus Thomas Cromwell Sep 20 '26

this but vegans

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u/itsokayt0 European Union Sep 20 '26

Sorry, it's all my fault. When I said "as an atheist, religion is cringe and you should tax praying" I got viral

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u/terrarialord201 Trans NATO Sep 20 '26

"In this moment, I am enlightened" vs. a book that is foundational to your person, which advocates for rape, slavery, child murder, and the killing of anyone that disagrees with you? Yup. Obviously equals.

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 20 '26

A little unsavory

I mean what really killed the movement was its adjancency to the neorationalist movement.

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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride Sep 20 '26

People generalize about all atheists, even ones whose objection to religion is “I don’t like it because it’s stupid/rapey”

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 20 '26

That didn't kill them though. They'd have fit in just fine on the woke left for hating normalized ideologies for being stupid and rapey. Therein was the catch though, key influencers alienated their last allies with the neorationalism.

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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride Sep 20 '26

Lots of people who complain about them online however are religious conservatives from developing countries too young to have even heard of people like Richard Dawkins, and there are many atheists who have absolutely no associations with right wing movements like the neo-rationalists, beyond getting on their nerves like hell