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What are your biggest pet peeves in the atheism community? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by Gorilladrums@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

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Here are my top 3:

Whataboutism with Christainity - I've been a vocal critic of islam in atheist spaces for well over a decade. There has not been a single instance of me criticizing islam where I did not get a hoard of atheists bringing up Christianity for no reason. There's no relevance and no point to it, but they get really mad when I try to focus on islam. It's like why can't they just accept that islam or other religions can be criticized on their own merits independently?
Self centered American atheists - Whenever I ever bring up my and my family's experiences in the middle east and how horrible islam is over there, there will always be a handful of ignorant American atheists who can't comprehend that the world is more than their country. No ISIS and your dumb MAGA uncle are not the same.
"All religions are bad" - I hate this statement because it's like "all lives matter". Yeah, no shit all religions are bad. That's literally the baseline of any atheist community. All the discussions lie in the nuances beyond that. Smearing this statement all over atheist spaces is completely meaningless.

What about you guys? Are there any things in the atheist community that you noticed that make your eyes twitch? I would love to hear them.

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[–] rollin@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

well you really can go down to the local mental hospital. they deal with many people who think they have some "secret communication channel" with non-human intelligences.

you really should know this already.

some of these people will claim to talk to ghosts, for others it'll be aliens, and others again will claim they're talking to spiderman.

I am struggling to really believe you are being honest when you say you've rejected religion if you think that these people might in fact be talking to ghosts, or aliens or spiderman.

If you think such things could be real rather than simple constructions of tormented human imagination, what made you give up your religion?

[–] FrogCat@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think they're probably not talking to ghosts/aliens/etc, but I can't rule it out 100%. Just like I don't believe in God, although I can't be 100% certain that God doesn't exist. So I'm an agnostic atheist I guess - I don't believe in God but I'm not 100% certain of his non-existence. Maybe God will reveal himself in the future, although I doubt it.

what made you give up your religion?

I've never been religious. My parents aren't religious, so religion was something our family was never into.

[–] rollin@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

not talking to ghosts/aliens/etc, but I can’t rule it out 100%

you keep skipping over the spiderman one. Don't think I haven't noticed lol

So I take it you don't think a mental patient might actually be talking to spiderman? Same goes for Gandalf presumably, or Yoda. What about Thor? You probably think Thor is legit because some people did once believe there was such a being, right? So what if you then found out that our mental patient was actually talking to the Marvel Thor from the movies? All of a sudden you lose interest, this guy's crazy, and definitely no longer a prophet, hmm?