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Anti-religious links come up occasionally on reddit and elsewhere. Reddit commentors aren't a good sample of the population, but they are a good sample of the p
by mynameishere 19y ago
Anti-religious links come up occasionally on reddit and elsewhere. Reddit commentors aren't a good sample of the population, but they are a good sample of the population that is 1) youngish, 2) professional, 3) media-aware, and 4) intellectually self-conscious.
And their attitude toward religion? Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales. Nothing too complicated. You aren't dealing with Spinoza here, but just kids who got out of Mayberry.
Anyway, those same 1-4 things (when present in large amounts) are exactly what produce wealth in society.
- run4yourlives 19y ago>Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales. Not to defend religion, but young people tend to be "Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking" of pretty much anything that isn't centred around their own world.
- yters 19y agoYes, even in Plato's Laws the speakers remark how being an atheist is a young person thing. CS Lewis was an atheist until around his late twenties.