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What's the difference between "Reddit" atheism and regular old atheism? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Inspired by some of the discussion in this thread. I don't think it's appropriate place for that discussion there, but hey why not have a separate thread for it

If I think religion is not good in general, am I Reddit and cringe and basically Richard Dawkins?

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

I was the perfect image of an annoying smug Reddit atheist and it was because I was convinced that racism, sexism, xenophobia, and most of societies ills were outgrowths of religion.

Such things can and have showed up and flourished religion-free, and recently, largely because of the reactionary sociopolitical movements started by certain high profile atheists that were effectively the architects of what we call Reddit New Atheism:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/New_Atheism#.22The_Four_Horsemen.22

There was an attempt for atheism as an online presence to self-correct, but that was countered with reactionary rage.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheism_Plus