Message from @Dusty Morgan
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An Atheist is someone like Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson
To what degree the harm is caused depends on the person who follows that ideology.
Or Jonathan Haidt
It depends on the people who are a part of that ideology or religion.
An anti theist is Matt Dilahunty
I don't believe in God/gods so I call myself atheist because it is descriptive of that. Doesn't really bother me if there are assholes or idiots who use the same title.
That is why people seem to misunderstand us Atheists.
They try to think of us as a collective.
When we are individuals.
Think of it this way, imagine the KKK call themselves feminists
And you call yourself a feminist
When you say you're a feminist, you're automatically lumped in with the KKK
And the person you're talking to, goes immediately on the offensive
I tell people I am a Atheist, they automatically think I am a Liberal left.
I am like woah woah, I am a independent.
I think a lot of younger and some older atheists are super edgy because they feel betrayed by the upbringing, and the ones who got over it or never felt that way just don't feel the need to bring it up much.
I don't give a crap for the left, hell I don't want to be associated with them.
I just want them to call themselves anti thesists and not pollute the term atheist
Because I want to be an atheist. I want to study and analyse religions
I believe it can do a ton of good
To me... religion is just a primitive way of understanding the world. Best way to describe it... a lot of unknowns were associated to deities.
That's how I see it as well for the most part.
And that's what I disagree with.
The more we learn about the world around us, the more we kill off these so called deities.
Think about it.
More than that, though
I think philosophy is at odds with nature.
Let's take the Abrahamic story
Why is god such a hypocrite?
The fact that we can have a civil discussion and not rip each other's throats out
And why have these stories stayed the same for thousands of years?
That's not natural, but I'd consider it as good.
Atleast that element of it
Religion is also a way of creating social codes and cohesion. A way of controlling people, and I don't mean that in a bad way, it was one that I think probably did a lot of good for our ancestors. Same way modern laws are a way of controlling people.
There is a small grain of truth to most religious stories, but those who written them down took a lot of creative liberties to them.
i think religion has a variety of good and bad aspects
The entire point of Religion is to put a person beholden to a consistent higher power.
I don't think religious stories were ever intended to be a way of understanding the world as we think of it
Because being beholden to your fellow man and your own legacy beyond your own life is a MUCH HARDER thing to ask.
I think they were designed to impart values that were easily impressed upon people through stories than complicated philosophy
Some were. Like Zeus throwing lightning bolts. "well how else could you explain that? No human could ever understand where those come from so it MUST be Zeus"