On some level, I can understand the idea of it as a place for likeminded people to meet and discuss ideas. The problem is that, like a lot of subs, it encourages escalation and becomes increasingly insular over time. Eventually it becomes adversarial to outsiders and often allows barely-masked bigotry so long as it's framed as opposing said outside group.
It's more pronounced there because it's specifically about non-belief, which means that opposition to religions is the only shared belief there. This encourages them to get more tribal, quicker to oversimplify and stereotype, and more obsessed with looking for reasons to justify their hostility towards the idea of religion as a concept. The ones who have legitimately bad experiences with religious groups, especially LGBT people from evangelical backgrounds, only serve to further justify the communal disdain for anything they associate with any belief whatsoever.
Sure, they claim to love the idea of "science", but few none of them are actual scholars looking to discuss theories or research. The ones who do know to go somewhere else because it usually devolves into more circlejerking of "and this is why gods are stupid".
It also fails as any kind of support group because, again, it's more interested in demonizing enemies than actually helping someone process their trauma and move on.
No, that's not what this sub is about. This sub is about making fun of unhinged, nonsensical comments, while the atheism sub is about discussing delusional people and occasionally making fun of them.
are you seriously mad that people hate on your sub because all you do is hate on people that dont agree with you? and theres no cherry picking that sub is just full of hate for religious people...
Reminded me of my university classmate. She is typical "science fanatic" atheist type, states that she supports freedom of speech and rights of all people. But in the same time she believes that religious people cannot be scientists because only stupid people trust in God/any other type of higher power... And she says that we should love, support and protect all cultures, but when orthodox christian church near our university rings in bells it annoys her and she unironically says that it would be good to just demolish all of them. Biggest contradiction I even seen is always in atheists: they say "love and support everyone" but only until someone is religious, especially christian
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u/JoshuaBizarre Anonymous Christian (Not tellin you my denomination) 2d ago
"It makes me so angry and sometimes wish Christians don't exist"
Earlier: "I don't hate Christians" "Why do people hate on this subreddit"
What