• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    People just pretend there aren’t bad atheists for some reason.

    What are you talking about? >90% of the time it’s the other way around. Most of the time, people don’t think about atheism unless they’re bashing them.

    I call bad atheism “The Cult of the Void”. They believe that, after you die, there is just oblivion. They have no more empirical evidence for this than any other belief system,

    Just stop, you don’t understand what you’re talking about. The idea behind it is “we have no evidence for any of the claims so we must stick with the default hypothesis of ‘nothing’”. It’s basic scientific method.

    They usually recruit by bullying and negging people into believing their beliefs are stupid

    No, they don’t. Just the assholes, which are a minority. Meanwhile every religion tries to brainwash kids while they’re young, often threatening them with eternal hellfire if they step out of line.

    The good atheists are respectful and curious.

    Well this is going in a good direction at least

    They don’t share the belief

    So the “good” ones are the ones that only sit down and shut up? Fuck off with that. There’s a spectrum of ways to respectfully share your own opinions

    You don’t notice the quiet ones that are just existing happily.

    You’re clearly only adding this last line in here to give yourself a façade of reason, like the religious version of “I’m not racist, but