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What are your biggest pet peeves in the atheism community? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Gorilladrums@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

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Here are my top 3:

Whataboutism with Christainity - I've been a vocal critic of islam in atheist spaces for well over a decade. There has not been a single instance of me criticizing islam where I did not get a hoard of atheists bringing up Christianity for no reason. There's no relevance and no point to it, but they get really mad when I try to focus on islam. It's like why can't they just accept that islam or other religions can be criticized on their own merits independently?
Self centered American atheists - Whenever I ever bring up my and my family's experiences in the middle east and how horrible islam is over there, there will always be a handful of ignorant American atheists who can't comprehend that the world is more than their country. No ISIS and your dumb MAGA uncle are not the same.
"All religions are bad" - I hate this statement because it's like "all lives matter". Yeah, no shit all religions are bad. That's literally the baseline of any atheist community. All the discussions lie in the nuances beyond that. Smearing this statement all over atheist spaces is completely meaningless.

What about you guys? Are there any things in the atheist community that you noticed that make your eyes twitch? I would love to hear them.

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[–] MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Second this. After my 20s I had no desire to discuss it at length with anyone, including other atheists/agnostics. It is what it is.

It's like if you meet someone and they quickly tell you "Barney wasn't a real dinosaur! He was just some guy in a suit" And you go "yep", and that's it, you two know where you each stand on it. The fact is obvious and that's all that needs to be said on the subject. Except for shit talking people who believe Barney was real, which is just petty, there's no where else for the conversation to go.

I live in a fairly religious area and occasionally get cornered for a discussion. I just listen, spout some vaguely affirming non-committal thing and exit the conversation. Nobody needs to know.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I love the Barney remark!

This describes my experience at the atheist group.

So... You all don't believe in God either hey. Okay... Well good night.

(Clearly most of the people were there because they had some shit to get off their chest, and we had nothing in common, and I'm not a free therapist and I don't give a fuck how traumatized someone else was by religion, not my job to deal with it)