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The discourse on atheist subreddits is so insufferable and ignorant it actually makes me want to become religious when I am staunchly atheist (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I say this knowing that people stuck within conservative communities that use violence to maintain conservatism through functionally-mandatory religious power structures don’t necessarily have an outlet to deal with the resulting trauma and that this context has to be considered when they get online and vent in toxic ways about religion on atheist communities.

….but still

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It’s also only caring about viewing an aspect of human culture through the lens of rationality when it comes to whether some ridiculous magic bullshit happened from a higher power and ignoring the extremely relevant and very rational adjacent context that fears of dark skinned Muslim people are used all over the world in majority Christian nations to distract voters from thinking about how much they are suffering at home.

The more we hate Islam the easier it is to distract us from the fact that we don’t have healthcare…. money, or time off.

I am all for viewing religions like Islam through a rational lens, but I think that includes being careful not to feed into narratives Islam is inherently dangerous when criticizing Islam from an atheist perspective.

Also, it is difficult to rationally criticize Islam without including geopolitics and colonialism as a context for why violence is perceived as being associated with Islam. It is too important of a context, you can’t carefully just cut it out like it is the edges of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.