yeah, as director of reeducation my annual budget would just be

Pit Digging Equipment..........$67 Million

I could hide in the Satan statue and when he tries to attack it, I stand up and laugh

He'd have a coronary and go straight down to the floor

Tbh the headless Satan statue would go hard.

"Former Atheist, Now proud Nestorian Christian" is a good bit.

A lot of these chuds go with whatever is convenient to them, I suspect they didn't have many choices near to them so went with this.

They're also probably the least popular person at the local Church and everyone tries to avoid them

Anglicans are the Protestants that kept the Catholic aesthetics, also a lot of the saints and theology, they just cut out the Vatican.

its what they do

"haha, is that a ranbow flag shirt, what are you VIRTUE SIGNALING??" proceeds to wear a MAGA hat

"you shouldn't hire women and minorities you should hire people based on SKILL" proceeds to explain why white men need to be hired

People who agree with the culturaly hegemonic position are normal and comforting, people who challenge the hegemonic position are argumentative and annoying.

When I think of christians I'm not necessarily fond of them, but I think of a mid western social group. Like a balding dad volunteering to coach baseball for middle schoolers. Or moms talking about reality TV on Thanksgiving while a dad teaches the kids how to play poker.

I am sorry to say that your brain is a victim of propaganda

AmeriKKKans try to be normal about atheism challenge, difficulty: impossible. When i think about Christians, i know two or three genuinely nice and decent people who aren't weird about it and understand the inherently problematic parts of scripture and have based takes on how awful evangelicals and tradcaths are. And literally every other Christian i know is just various degrees of reactionary. Meanwhile, besides these two or three exceptions, every single politically trustworthy person i know is an atheist or an agnostic.

wtf are they smoking

Feudalism

No. We absolutely don't. "Reddit atheists" were actually wrong about a fuckton of things, it shouldn't surprise anybody in hindsight that the sceptic movement was largely a bunch of chauvinists that would pivot away from atheism and get funneled into the fash pipeline at the drop of a hat. It's just that the problem here was always the reddit part, not the atheism part.

Chauvinist STEMlords do not suddenly become based for rejecting young earth creationism. They were still chauvinist STEMlords and immediately used atheism as an excuse to align themselves with the genocidal wars the post 9/11 US waged in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the entire islamophobic superstructure that served as the propagandistic backdrop for that campaign of mass murder and a few years later formed large parts of the substrate the alt right (that is now virtually identical to the right) grew out of.

Reddit atheism always had the undercurrent of being war on terror propaganda for liberals with a PhD. It also always had the misogynist bias and sex pest tendencies that are rampant in Epsteinian academia, see Dawkins, Pinker, Krauss etc.

You fuckers need to learn NUANCE. Seriously. It grosses me out that you can't say anything here without somebody feeling the need to include the literal worst example of that thing in human history as something we need to unconditionally support.

I would like to gently suggest that when you feel a need to make a "bold" statement, you first take a breath and ask yourself if there are reasons it could be incorrect. Maybe you can't think of any, and that's fine, maybe in some cases you are right (not here) and in some cases you just can't figure out the error and need help (like we all do sometimes).

I say this in part because I just can't imagine how else such warped, obviously false, and ideologically deeply incoherent claims get made, except that the above question needed to be asked but wasn't.

Reddit atheism was chauvinistic and philosophically profoundly backwards. Their intellectual posturing was pathetic and senseless and they used a veil of faux-progressivism to attack social minorities and cheerlead war.

Reddit atheists were like Democrats in that they have the most ridiculous opposition, mainly American evangelicals, to make themselves look good but that didn't prevent them from being complete fools

Incidentally, ironic distancing is reactionary and we should seek to have sincerity in any decent progressive movement.

Reddit atheists were right about everything

Counterpoint: elevatorgate