Comment on a man of many minds

• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Atheism+ was atheism with progressive politics, but suddenly some people thought Islam was worse than christianity, and also thought it would court conservative christians a lot better if they were more friendly to conservatism, and also also communism bad therefore we need to counterbalance that with showing that you can be both an atheist and right wing. So atheism+ fell apart, then the secularism of new atheism fell out of favor for “defending western civilization from islamism”, as far-right christians were better at big tentism.

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  • jamie_veal@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, just joking ofc. So that islamophobia was also part of atheism+? The religions wiki conveniently leaves that part out. It really reads like the similar values which the church of Satan stands for, just without the whole “We worship Satan to fuck with fundamentalists” schtick.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Atheism+ was neutral towards Islam, which -alongside with all the progressive politics - broke the minds of more islamophobic new atheists.

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