I believe this was more a comment on the left's habit or rejecting anything related to God and fetishizing science into a pseudo- religion. Ironic, since many of the men considered by history to be scientific greats were believers of the very thing that the left despises.
Not all atheists are woke, this is true, but the majority of the left leans hard into the arrogance, misery, and consumerism that aethism can instill in some people.
The issue is that, at least in modern times, those things have been slapped together to form a misery sandwich. There is no God, so worship the state. There is no God, so worship money. There is no God, so buy that 13 inch dragon dildo and livestream yourself riding it.
Look, I get that at one point atheism came about as a rejection of systemic corruption and as a form of self-mastery and ownership, and to some people it still is that, but to the woke left it isn't. It's an excuse to engage in all their fucked up and destructive behaviours. It's an excuse for them to adopt a smugness and intellectual arrogance to satisfy their ego. It's an excuse to remove any fault and responsibility for themselves because what's the point, right?
Atheism has been absorbed and leveraged by the evil people in this world and used towards a bad end, just like everything else they get involved with. It's just another thing to be used to fuel their desire for power and control, and it's been really successful so far. God has never been more absent from the hearts and minds of people than now, and even though we live in a time of untold luxury and abundance, people are fucking miserable. In their misery they've turned to the government, media, and sciencism for comfort and answers and now we have entire swaths of people who worship the societal elite as if they're gods. The whole thing is sickening and the co-opting and promotion of atheism has been a major part of it.
If I were an atheist that saw atheism as a framework for self-mastery and personal accountability, I'd be furious with all this, as I assume you are.
Meh. Religious folks like to trot this out for anyone they don't like, it seems.
Being an atheist doesn't make you "woke." I agree with 99.99% of the things you do, just not the bit about god.
I believe this was more a comment on the left's habit or rejecting anything related to God and fetishizing science into a pseudo- religion. Ironic, since many of the men considered by history to be scientific greats were believers of the very thing that the left despises.
Not all atheists are woke, this is true, but the majority of the left leans hard into the arrogance, misery, and consumerism that aethism can instill in some people.
Atheism doesn't instill that. It's the replacement religion (typically of Marxist wokeness) that does that.
Read about the history of the atheist community, specifically the Atheist+ movement.
The issue is that, at least in modern times, those things have been slapped together to form a misery sandwich. There is no God, so worship the state. There is no God, so worship money. There is no God, so buy that 13 inch dragon dildo and livestream yourself riding it.
Look, I get that at one point atheism came about as a rejection of systemic corruption and as a form of self-mastery and ownership, and to some people it still is that, but to the woke left it isn't. It's an excuse to engage in all their fucked up and destructive behaviours. It's an excuse for them to adopt a smugness and intellectual arrogance to satisfy their ego. It's an excuse to remove any fault and responsibility for themselves because what's the point, right?
Atheism has been absorbed and leveraged by the evil people in this world and used towards a bad end, just like everything else they get involved with. It's just another thing to be used to fuel their desire for power and control, and it's been really successful so far. God has never been more absent from the hearts and minds of people than now, and even though we live in a time of untold luxury and abundance, people are fucking miserable. In their misery they've turned to the government, media, and sciencism for comfort and answers and now we have entire swaths of people who worship the societal elite as if they're gods. The whole thing is sickening and the co-opting and promotion of atheism has been a major part of it.
If I were an atheist that saw atheism as a framework for self-mastery and personal accountability, I'd be furious with all this, as I assume you are.