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?
The key difference is that there’s a certain type of atheist that is essentially Christian in every sense aside from actually believing in God. They tend to have a lot of racist ideas about any religion that isn’t Christianity and criticize them far more harshly than Christianity. I think these people are worse than your average religious person, and I would most accurately describe myself as a staunch anti-theist.
It’s interesting to read manifestos and stuff from the French Revolution; people like the Jacobins were fighting as much against the Church as the aristocracy.
Christianity has historically been a way of extracting rent for the church, and atheism therefore has been associated with left-wing movements that wanted to strangle kings with the entrails of priests and whatnot.