Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social

It's important to understand that you CANNOT lump all religions together into one big whole, which is where many militant Capital A Atheists get in trouble. They tend to see all religion as Christianity. And it's NOT. So much Atheism is just informed by Christianity and it results in bigotry.

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Odie @theodeity.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

yah when they complain about "Abrahamic religions," they've usually never looked into anything other than their former strain of Christianity

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DJDynamicNC (he/him) @djdynamicnc.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

I was a New Atheist for, like, 5 months. They had way too much emphasis on being a smug asshole for my taste lol I do think "religion" is a useful category to describe that set of spiritual beliefs, but you're right; New Atheists use "religion" when they mean "Christianity" without differentiating

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

So much this.

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Virginia S. O'Possum @virginiaopossum.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:09 UTC

Somehow this reminds me of the Jewish Vampire Question.

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Lighting Rod [Bluesky Older] @yendorcire.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:09 UTC

This absolutely true. If you ask an atheist why they don't believe in God and they immediately start debunking the Bible, they have never considered anything else.

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professional agitatormama @pnutsmama.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:38 UTC

also i’m sorry but it’s also just such fucking lazy racism. like, not only do we already have more accurate terms to describe our own homegrown criminals but they literally do not operate in the same ways, functionally!

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christopher lee melkus @teenmethuselah.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

I really do agree, what these militant Capital A Atheists don't understand is without an authentic, lived understanding of *why* they should also not believe in non-Christian religions, they're just as irrational as those they criticize. Really, they're as bad as the subjects of their criticism.

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