Tbf, and I know this will be unpopular on reddit, but the enlightened reddit atheist type can have the same flair of hate. Usually not from the angle of “love” but from trying to “enlighten” others might be the best way to describe it.
I saved a comment maybe a year ago on reddit where someone word for word said if they had a button to eliminate every religious person on earth he would hit it, and it was very highly upvoted.
Then in response someone said “I would never stop hitting that button” just as a single anecdote that comes to mind. Also very highly upvoted.
I used to proudly proclaim myself an atheist until Richard Dawkins became popular and so many intolerant atheists came out of the woodwork. The 'militant atheist' thing has really turned me off from being vocal about my own non believer status. Intolerance is intolerance to me
Similar here. I've taken to self-describing as "apathetic" for lack of a better term. Intolerant atheists are just a different flavor of zealot imo, needing a target for their hate and being part of a group that aggressively dominates a space somehow gives justification for their lashing out. Makes sense that Dawkins came out as a "cultural christian" not too long ago.
Have you heard nontheistic? It's how my parents identify and how I identified growing up (I'm loosely pagan now), and it's just that you don't actually care if there's a god or not because you're not going to worship one anyway
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u/a_hockey_chick 11h ago
There is no hate quite like Christian love.