• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ignoring thousands of years of history where religion literally controlled people does not help the rest of your arguments.

    I’m afraid not - it’s you that is blithely ignoring history. Religion has been used to justify revolt as much as - if not far more - than it has been used to justify conformity.

    I guess we’re beyond the point of merely calling this “edgelord atheism” now - I’d say that a better term for it would be fundamentalist atheism. And, like everything peddled by the right, it’s perfectly ahistorical and essentialized.