Hardline Christian monotheism shares a common front with hardline atheism: both sides are keen on asserting that gods don't exist. The Christian missionary steamrolls into a strange land and tells the people, "Everything you believe is a lie; there's only one correct source for cosmic truth." Obnoxious atheists merely mimic this behavior, only with a different notion of the "one correct source", and they offer far less in exchange for the trashing of old beliefs. ~Chara
- they/them
plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
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in reply to @pnictogen-wing's post:
I think it was Richard Dawkins that pointed out that he was firmly "Culturally Christian". Maybe the only good thing he ever did - that one can pick up all the cues and norms and practices (like holidays, or in this case the shitty 'I'm right you're wrong I r smrt' mindset) without believing any of the liturgy.
Dawkins and other New Atheists like him seem to regard Christianity as somehow more advanced or sophisticated than all other religions, a uniquely civilizing force, even a necessary stage in cultural evolution. Maybe they figure that Christianity will inevitably give way to atheistic enlightenment—in precisely the same fashion as many atheists' personal journey from Christianity into apostasy and renunciation. And that's fine I guess, but it'd be pleasanter if atheists who did this acknowledged that their notions about deity and religion were specifically Christian and not universal.