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The point about the splintering of atheism is well covered in: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ https://slatestarc
by hitekker 4y ago
The point about the splintering of atheism is well covered in: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godles...
> Most movement atheists weren’t in it for the religion. They were in it for the hamartiology. Once they got the message that the culture-at-large had settled on a different, better hamartiology, there was no psychological impediment to switching over. We woke up one morning and the atheist bloggers had all quietly became social justice bloggers. Nothing else had changed because nothing else had to; the underlying itch being scratched was the same. They just had to CTRL+F and replace a couple of keywords.
- gregorty 4y agoThat's interesting to know, I was browsing RationalWiki the other day, for the first time in many years, and was surprised by how irrational it is. This would appear to explain it.
- agentwiggles 4y agoThanks for this link. I was hugely into atheist discourse during this time period (about 2008-2012) and it was fun to read through Scott's thoughts on the decline.