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He saw something vaguely Muslim inside HIS imperial core and his monocle popped off so now he's on team (White) Jesus.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago

Militant atheism is when you prefer the religion of your birth nation.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago

insufferable dipshit is too much of a coward to be open about his white supremacy. i wish him a very hamas-red-triangle

[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago

That's a lot of words to just say "racist".

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

what's that? the guy that nigh invented modern anti-islam reactionary atheism is now deciding to be all thomas jefferson about the christofascism? crazy.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why are there Ramadan lights up there? Am I under Islamic control now?dafoe-horror

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Richard Dawkins confirmed to be on the same intellectual level as your small town, chud uncle that talks about how he saw 'Hamas sympathizers' hangliding near his property in Missouri

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

The islamophobia hiding behind the veil of "rational reddit atheism" was always there. The selfcongratulatory euphoria posting should have been a red flag to anyone decent.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Can he culturally come out as dead? That would be cool.

I'm sick of how these "atheist" types are only capable of hating one god. I thought y'all were mad at all gods. I thought thats why you decided to be atheist instead of anti Christian or anti whatever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Reminds me that every post I see on c/Atheism or c/AtheismMemes is anti-X religion and never about Atheism.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm atheist but culturally Christian, classically liberal

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Richard Dawkins has been saying that he's a cultural Christian, or implying it, for decades now. I remember my highschool English teacher making fun of Dawkins for doing so.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

New atheists are always trying to get ego gratification as they troll and are obnoxious. In the coming days to top him - I wonder what Sam Harris will do. I can't even imagine.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

HIS imperial core

This mutherfucker was born in Nairobi, he was born as an imperialist.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

bazinga atheism has fallen, billions must inshallah

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was raised Christian, and if I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd probably choose Islam at least 3 or 4 times out of 10.

We forget that classical scholarship, along with universities, plus most of modern medicine and technology and mathematics, emerged from the Muslim world. And despite the prevenient emphasis on submission, Muslims managed to not be one of the religions with a silly convoluted hierarchy, and also managed to be mostly cohesive and relatively non-parochial in their sects.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

good luck purging the reactionary element from either, but yeah, God, Syria and Bashar! is better than every christian song.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reactionary elements are not necessarily inherent to most religions, they emerge from self-seeking elements in human tendency and then sink their claws into religion to twist it into a tool to strengthen themselves.

No religion can be immune to this hijacking unless it is composed of explicitly egalitarian pillars.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right, religions have existed before and during class society. But religions under class society get used to perpetuate class rule. Example: Christianity gets appropriated by the empire, the church becomes all powerful, Christianity becomes another instrument of repression in Europe. So really you can only purge the reactionary elements with socialist revolution.

And I don't think explicitly egalitarian religions are possible under class society. Isn't Sikhism supposed to be that, yet it fails in several regards?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's entirely likely that a religion with complete and explicit communistic substance would never be permitted to grow to become the establishment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There have been several famous Christian groups thst tried this before they were executed.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's that cool looking rectangular prism?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He also outed himself as a massive transphobe a while ago. I guess that fits in with the whole "culturally Christian" shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Probably has more to do with him being a biologist, a fair bit of them in his age range have dogshit views on trans stuff sadly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He rolled with Sam Harris and Cristopher Hitchens.

The “intellectual atheist of reason shtick” was nothing more than a glorification of the western white man as a scientifically enlightened individual.

The ideology of (western and white) Rationalism that is the substrate of neoliberalism.

Which is to say, he hates trans people because his scientifically enlightened self-perception is a thin wrapper of ideological justification around his racially, culturally, and gender driven sense of entitlement & superiority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

his scientifically enlightened self-perception

Yes, and this comes from him being a "celebrated biologist"

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

The fuck he is!

I'm calling on our Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Samaritan, Mandeaean, and other Abrahamic comrades to collectively enact whatever religious injunction you have that allows you to Minecraft this guy.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wish nothing but the worst for these chauvinist nu atheist fascists

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I support MABA

Make Atheism Based Again

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

It is cool to see actually evidence that white supremacy is more powerful than god

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

They can have him lol

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

He thinks humans were designed, of course he's a Christian.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

The Apostle Paul: if Christ was not raised, this is meaningless and we are to be pitied among all of humanity

Richard Dawkins: I will use the affect of a thing I hate, whose followers I despise and believe to be imbeciles, and strip it of all meaning entirely, a sign with no signifier, to be racist

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So I read his books for nothing?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Lights horrify him, but not dropping white phosphorus on babies?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I thought he was dead because I forget that he and Christopher Hitchens are not the same doodoohead.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

liberty-weeping we're going to show some RESPECT for the man who invented memes cri

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Kill your idols, the memes are ours now

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

From a reply: "this is just the deutsche christen with lessons and carols and a gin problem"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Mike flynn, refered to him as a prophet of calvinism.

The question is wether calvinism can be considered as christian, given that dawkings has wierd opinions on taxonomy, he probably thinks it is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

at least he knows it

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

I would take anything he says with a grain of salt. He puts far too much trust in horoscopes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

God, what little imagination these people have. I want a world where the American dominionist crowd hold no sway over me, and I mean no sway over me. Why would I vie to reject their religious framework just to have to resign to life spent their prisoner on a philosophical and cultural level?

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