Inspired by some of the discussion in this thread. I don’t think it’s appropriate place for that discussion there, but hey why not have a separate thread for it
If I think religion is not good in general, am I Reddit and cringe and basically Richard Dawkins?
To me, “reddit atheism” is basically just another name for what was once called the “new-atheist” movement. The problem with that movement was that it was a rejection of religion, but not specifically of religion’s reactionary aspects.
Several of the figureheads of new-atheism would go on to become “cultural christians” and bullshit like that, because for too damn many of them, their only real issue with religion was that they thought religious people were annoying and stupid, and the rest was just dressing up their contempt as something more.
The new-atheist movement also served as a way for people with liberal / left affectations to mask their complete internalization of Bush-era war-on-terror rhetoric and islamophobia as a principled opposition to religion rather than bigotry and chauvinism.