To be fair, athiests in general should be migrating to Lemmy. So far it’s been a better community and I no longer feel like the butt of Reddit stereotype jokes.
We might also get censored here, but fediverse gives even the most fringe views a home (as evidenced by recent fediverse drama). And if that happened, we can always make a dedicated athiest instance, similar to how communists all have their own instance. It’s important for ex-thiests to have a support system to help deprogram weird shit they learned as children.
The thing is that “atheism” seems to moreso mean that kind of militant atheist, the ones that treat atheism as a religion by itself (failing to see the irony) and push it onto others. Forcing atheism onto another is the same as forcing christianity or judaism onto another, and making fun of religious nutjobs is not something exclusive to atheism. The term has gotten some bad connotations because of that. Personally when I see the term “atheist” my first thought is “neo-theist loser with a grudge against psychological/spiritual comforts,” and I’m not of faith myself.
I’m not talking about like… brigading or conversion stuff. To use an example from my own life, I (ironically) teach at a Catholic university and, on occasion, a student who is questioning their faith will bring it up to me because it tends to come up that I’m atheist. At that point, it’s not a matter of forcing anything on people, it’s a matter of giving support to someone who is going to have a really hard time dealing with their family, friends, and school. Online communities are great for that.
Being an atheist is not something extreme or anything. I don’t see why there should be a problem now or in the future. Just don’t threaten to kill theists.
Nah, there are plenty of atheists that love licking the capitalist boot that exploits and oppresses them. Hell, that’s just modern American libertarianism.
It doesn’t take a notably intelligent person to recognize the invisible man in the sky judging you horseshit for what it is.
To be fair, athiests in general should be migrating to Lemmy. So far it’s been a better community and I no longer feel like the butt of Reddit stereotype jokes.
We might also get censored here, but fediverse gives even the most fringe views a home (as evidenced by recent fediverse drama). And if that happened, we can always make a dedicated athiest instance, similar to how communists all have their own instance. It’s important for ex-thiests to have a support system to help deprogram weird shit they learned as children.
The thing is that “atheism” seems to moreso mean that kind of militant atheist, the ones that treat atheism as a religion by itself (failing to see the irony) and push it onto others. Forcing atheism onto another is the same as forcing christianity or judaism onto another, and making fun of religious nutjobs is not something exclusive to atheism. The term has gotten some bad connotations because of that. Personally when I see the term “atheist” my first thought is “neo-theist loser with a grudge against psychological/spiritual comforts,” and I’m not of faith myself.
I’m not talking about like… brigading or conversion stuff. To use an example from my own life, I (ironically) teach at a Catholic university and, on occasion, a student who is questioning their faith will bring it up to me because it tends to come up that I’m atheist. At that point, it’s not a matter of forcing anything on people, it’s a matter of giving support to someone who is going to have a really hard time dealing with their family, friends, and school. Online communities are great for that.
how to make one? EDIT: I found this https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html but i still don’t understand how to make it.
!atheism@lemmy.world
Thanks, already subscribed. ;P
no i meant making an specific instance eg: lemmygrad
Can’t think of a reason why you would, but you do you.
I don’t think it’s necessary as is as long as Lemmyworld is chill. Just a thought that at least we have the power to if they ever went overboard.
Being an atheist is not something extreme or anything. I don’t see why there should be a problem now or in the future. Just don’t threaten to kill theists.
It’s just a matter of running the software on a server and configuring it
Nah, there are plenty of atheists that love licking the capitalist boot that exploits and oppresses them. Hell, that’s just modern American libertarianism.
It doesn’t take a notably intelligent person to recognize the invisible man in the sky judging you horseshit for what it is.
My only real problem so far is seeing a community called “Religious Cringetards”. Not big on seeing “tards”.