Mean leftist who believes in magic genders

  • 1 Post
  • 35 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: December 30th, 2023

help-circle




  • Exocrinous@lemm.eeOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlAntitheism
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Western atheism and antitheism often exist as reactions to Christianity on a factual or ethical basis, while remaining within a Christian cultural and moral context. Historically, Christians and atheists have worked together to attack other religions, such as in the case of the stolen generations in Australia or the cult panic in America. This pattern of behaviour is counterintuitive if you’re culturally Christian (as most atheists are), but from a broader cultural perspective it’s kind of obvious. Christianity and white atheism exist as offshoots of the same history in the same way that Catholicism and Protestantism do.

    If you have an actual understanding of pre-roman polytheism, then you’re capable of seeing the difference between belief and worship. A difference Christians have tried to erase, and white atheists have not challenged. Giving up cultural Christianity is beyond most white atheists’ ability to even imagine. What I call cultural Christianity, they would just as soon call “common sense” or “reality”.

    Also I’ve never met an antitheist who has spent longer than an hour thinking about whether they’re advocating cultural genocide of indigenous people.



  • Cops can't solve bad driving. Fear of punishment is not an effective deterrent. We know this because we've done the psychology and looked at the numbers. Unsafe driving is an infrastructure problem. In my country, people leave enough space between cars. It's not because we have more police than yours, it's because we have safer designed roads. Every traffic accident that causes a death is an infrastructure failure.



  • The gay spock problem is when you have two characters interacting who have the same pronouns, and it gets confusing. For example,

    He brushed his hair aside and spoke gently into his ear, "you are my one true love, my light and laughter, my reason to live."

    Who's the one speaking? Kirk or Spock?

    Likewise, if Alice and Barbara or Adam and Bob are your two example people, you'll run into the gay spock problem.