As an atheist I never got the point of evangelizing atheism. Isn’t that half the problem with religions?
New ATHEIST community.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by WiDGxT@lemmy.zip to newcommunities@lemmy.world
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roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When a person believes in a religion, they have trained their brains to ignore part of reality. Once you’ve trained your brain to do that, manipulative people can more easily abuse your brain into thinking other incorrect things.
And that’s how you get MAGA
So the purpose is less about evangelizing atheism, and more about fixing other people’s brains for the betterment of society.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Every religion thinks they’re “fixing” people by evangelizing
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, scientific materialism also denies a large part of reality. Or at least I knew that really, really well the last time I did mushrooms
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
we live in a society that denigrates atheism because it’s a threat to their dogma driven belief systems.
advocating for logic over proselytism isn’t evangelizing, grow up. you sound like Kirk Cameron lol
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idk, I haven’t been denigrated in a hot second.
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I 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.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
WiDGxT@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not evangelizing. It’s more about personal connections and being comrades. Community.
gressen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s VERY new since it has no posts at all.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ideally an empty atheist group is the platonic ideal. Nothing about nothing. No arguments. No exclusion. No evangelicals. No conversion attempts.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One day, hopefully! One fateful day with a secular majority. I have a dream. ✊
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, enjoy it now before the atheists destroy it with their atheism.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn atheists! They ruined atheism!
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s best to include the native format: !atheist@lemmy.zip
This way, people can traverse through their instance without switching websites.
protist@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
There seem to be quite a few already
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
!atheistmemes@lemmy.world !atheism@lemmy.world !atheism@lemmy.ca !atheism@sopuli.xyz !atheist@lemmy.zip !libera_chat_atheism@sopuli.xyz
Just one more community Bro! I swear that will fix it
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
And honestly, most of Lemmy is already pretty close, haha.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ours is the only True
GodAtheism!