If you want to talk about religion, atheism, or agnosticism in a public, semi-anonymous internet community such as Reddit/Lemmy, you’ll want to have thick skin. Sadly my skin is not as thick as I’d like.
Oh, and as an ex-Christian, I still use Christianity as a frame of reference a lot— especially when criticizing American “Christians” for their lack of empathy when a good chunk of their own book states they should be otherwise. But then because I brought up Christianity but didn’t explicitly say it was wrong and/or evil, I get shit on pretty quickly. Then people literally try to tell me I’m lying about being an ex-Christian, including on Lemmy. People are… sad.
I’ve been there. I grew up catholic and attended a religious school that taught me theology and catholic philosophists.
Often when I saw catholicism criticized with bullshit I tried to inform people of their mistake. Honestly, catholicism and the catholic church have enough verifiable shit that we could spend days just listing them out in detail, to make up issues just waters down the real problems and gives them an out.
Yeah, I always tell people there are tons of valid reasons to be atheist— whether it be disillusionment with religious people or texts, or it be just not feeling or seeing any real reason to believe. I have nothing against atheism, and I am very open to the idea that there’s no god. However, I have to say that a good chunk of atheists are really hateful and childish about/against beliefs, exactly as much as religious people can be. These bad-apple atheists try to claim that atheists by definition are more logical, but they aren’t necessarily— they’re still just humans.