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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are no actual atheists who write, let alone visit, this website.

Master with a capital? Seriously?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah first I’ve seen the atheist straw man in the wild. Maybe he DOES need a little Jesus lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I knew a conservative atheist. I didn’t realize he was conservative when I met him. But when he started attacking a progressive Christian friend of mine on a Facebook post I made, talking about the “woke mind virus,” I unfriended his ass real quick.

There are people from every ideological background who are suckers and fall for shit. Atheists are not some perfect paragon of intellect and virtue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Certainly, the whole idea is that theistic belief is separate from morality after all.

And yet examples are remarkable. The one you met wouldn’t have been memorable otherwise. At a guess, it’s rare because atheism is the kind of hair-shirt or “kick me” sign that actual assholes rarely choose, as it tends to require a fair amount of introspection.

But I have known a handful of assholes who go around telling everyone they’re an asshole, as if the negative attention is the point. Usually I associate that behavior with baggage related to abandonment and rejection.

In that case, conservatism and other socially maladaptive ideologies might be secondary to unresolved trauma, shame, fear, and self-hate. And for that, therapy is the only solution I know, not religion.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I met so many conservative rural people who were convinced that universities were just liberal indoctrination centers. Never put two brain cells together that by being around other people from different backgrounds and cultures you learn to respect those differences - you know - liberal values.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And being forced to back up your arguments with actual evidence, not whatever idiocy your friends and social media are telling you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Evidence is just a fancy word for opinion, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, evidence is evidence. Not all things are a debate between two or more legitimate interpretations.

Saying "climate change is real and caused by humans" or the "sky is blue" are statements of fact, and not up for debate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess I should have used /s.

It's, in my experience, the 'universities are liberal/woke indoctrination centres' folks are also the ones whom have issues with grasping the difference between evidence, facts and opinions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Haha, guess so. Ah well, no harm done.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't real. More propaganda from the right.

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

I mean it may be but I know a guy who considers himself a militant atheist and proudly parrots all of those points. He's been screeching about the evil Democrats on Facebook for months. Absolutely insufferable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you call yourself an atheist conservative, you are basically just telling everyone that you are evil. You don't hate trans people because you fear eternity in hell or some shit, you are just trash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Welcome to the 90s and 00

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Anyone calling a politician's rise to power a "glorious victory" is a walking, talking red flag

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the one above the blue is too funny.. '...government appointments will be selected according to merit'.

by what criteria? who gives better head? who has putin on a 1-button speed dial? or actual qualifications and successful experience?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Merit $$$$$

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

'Atheist Conservatives' are as mythological as a petrohyherodron.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But you must admit, it's definitely easier to say 😓

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

As an atheist, you can be an atheist and a complete moron, as evidenced by conservative atheists.

All being atheist does, is mean you do not believe in one of the most obvious bullshit scams in the world, but it doesn't mean you are some 5D enlightened guru.

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

Looks like a group of frauds and liars.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The Master has come home again

The stupid fucker is an atheist only because he can't lick god's boots, but he can lick trump's asshole

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump is the Master! that explains everything!
Can anyone call the Doctor before we get another paradox machine?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, no - Trump's strings might be pulled by The Master, but he's just too effing dumb to actually be The Master.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Precisely. The Master had style.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

We should ask them "what does the boot taste like"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It hurts my brain to read

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Imagine someone expressing this idea in real life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What a dumbass, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the North Carolina Black Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

From the Wikipedia article about "Agenda 47" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47#Education

This is one of the items:

"Freedom to Pray", i.e. "we will support bringing back prayer to our schools".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like there's gonna be a whole lot of kids with irregularly healed fractures and complications of tonsillitis.