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I agree, but beware that many people end up filling a religion shaped hole with other things. look at how many of our fellow atheists have joined the church of
by undefined1 6y ago
I agree, but beware that many people end up filling a religion shaped hole with other things. look at how many of our fellow atheists have joined the church of social justice. adhering to a new kind of religion and dogma. things you can't say, heretics who must be cast out, good vs evil, original sin, preachers, zealots, self flagellation. it's all there, except for a path to redemption.
https://reason.com/2020/06/29/kneeling-in-the-church-of-social-justice/ https://reason.com/2020/06/29/kneeling-in-the-church-of-soci...
- nicbou 6y agoI'm not sure if it makes sense to connect those two. Is there any more political zealotry among atheists than among the religious?
- oblio 6y agoI think that at some level you need a belief system. There will always be things beyond us, so at some level the only thing we can do is guess. But we shouldn't let those guesses dominate our life and we should re-evaluate them completely, say, at least every decade.
- gumby 6y ago> religion shaped hole Your statement presumes that there is something innate about religion. There are billions of people who live completely off the line of explicitly atheistic <-> avowedly devout. They are by their nature not generally considered in such discussions.
- freewilly1040 6y agoQAnon is also a filler of this void.