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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

It was the Evangelical literalist generation of Christian fanatics being replaced by cultural/nationalist Christian fanatics who didn’t care about arguing that God literally stopped the Earth’s rotation for a bit once, they just make “the Christian cultural practices make us the supreme culture” arguments. And there was always an undercurrent of “the undeveloped savages lack our rational way of doing things, that’s why they’re savages” to portions of the new atheist movement, which dovetails with that attitude.

Plus, the right started picking up the “logic facts and reason” schtick so it made for an attractive grift to new atheists already with that branding.