• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    If you were raised in “the West” then you are most likely passively “culturally Christian” too.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      16 months ago

      True, but the thing, as I don’t base my entire fucking identity around it to the point where I’m openly bragging about it, despite trying to be the figurehead of New Atheism (New Atheism and Atheism are different things)

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        16 months ago

        We have to remember that “New Atheism” was/is largely a response to militant Islam and also demographic shift in western nations.

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            6 months ago

            The whole New Atheist movement and cries of cultural xtianity came about due to the rise of militant Islam. They were appealing to a particular audience.

            It was always “religion is bad but Islam is especially bad” from Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris.

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              26 months ago

              Ah that, I guess that explains shit like Harris literally demanding a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Islam in his book The End of Faith

              Whole thing was still cringe and I’m glad it seems to have lost in the end.