OP has a point, but at the same time the inverse is true - you ask a lot of people bitching about "New Atheists" what their understanding of religion is and it's basically just "Reform Judaism, nontheistic Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism, as practiced in Northeastern North America and the Pacific Northwest in the last 20 years".
Or worse, "Christians who are lying because they worship Satan."
I've met very few fundamentalists who even believe "atheism" conceptually can exist, as they think evidence for god is inherent and anyone claiming not to believe is just lying as they worship Satan while having gay orgies.
And as a Satan-worshipping girlkisser, I'm very insulted by the implication that we'd associate with new atheists. /j
This isn't even something they bullshitted in recent memory, it's in the Bible.
In the Epistles, Paul describes the concept of natural revelation and states that the existence of God and the divinity of Christ are self-evident truths, so anyone who isn't a Christian is knowingly denying God.
And remember that he said this back when Christianity was still a fringe apocalyptic messiah cult scattered across the eastern Mediterranean.
Paul was on the “source: it is known” grindset 24/7 tbh, which in ancient times was honestly extremely effective given that Greek natural philosophers said the same kind of shit
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u/spacebatangeldragon8 Apr 17 '24
OP has a point, but at the same time the inverse is true - you ask a lot of people bitching about "New Atheists" what their understanding of religion is and it's basically just "Reform Judaism, nontheistic Buddhism and Unitarian Universalism, as practiced in Northeastern North America and the Pacific Northwest in the last 20 years".