"Are we jokes to you?"
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I've seen this used as a critique, where all the western chauvinist colonial brainworms that are present in Christianity are still present in atheism even though the theological justification isn't there (and many of those atheists considering themselves morally superior to the Christians that they repudiate).
I think in my lifetime I saw Dawkins say he was culturally Christian just after the invasion of Iraq, and it seems much more a declaration of his "side" and a rejection of Islam, but I think it became more common to say about yourself around the same time gamergate atheists became tradcaths.
Yeah I remember Jordan Peterson saying he didn't believe in Christianity but thought that everyone should pretend it's real anyway because "It creates social order"
I though JBP avoided that conversation a lot because he had half his audience as reactionary atheist gamers and the other half reactionary Christian gamers and didn't feel like losing a substantial portion of his audience by endorsing either (that said, he's said a lot so maybe both things are true)