True. I never got the point of it.
But I’m atheist/agnostic in a place where nearly everyone else is. I guess it feels a bit different when you live somewhere where literally everyone else is religious.
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drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week agoI do find it a bit distasteful sometimes but I’d disagree with you here. It’s a support group and the only way to wake up society to absurd flaws of religion is through community conciousness.
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drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Exactly. It’s clearly net positive for our society even if it can be cringe just by the sheer scale of religious oppression in the world.
If atheism forum ate a baby every day it would still be a net positive because people on Lemmy forgot that religious freedom and freedom to be an atheist is not viable in big chunk of the world.
Thats why so many atheist converts become such zealots. Imagine growing up in what essentially is spiritual North Korea and discovering freedom for the first time. That’s where many of these cringe atheist memes come from.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In my experience most of these online groups are just memes and stories about being superior to religious people. I had to bail on them because it was gross.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re saying that from a privilege of living where atheism is acceptable. For many its not and its a powerful tool for resisting religion.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The atheism subreddit in particular is more toxic than any religious people I’ve encountered on the internet. I identify as discordian now specifically to distance myself from that kind of atheist.