Quote:
Originally Posted by peter12
There is a higher percentage of edgelords among the atheist community than any other community that has existed in human history.
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I've been through my militant anti-theist phase, and while I'm still an agnostic atheist and anti-theist, it's mercifully becoming less and less of an issue these days such that I really don't need to dedicate much if any time to talking about the subject.
BUT...
If someone was raised on and had it hammered into their head all of the religious nonsense that many people from religious upbringings have been subjected to, only to come to the conclusion that you've been: lied to, emotionally abused (eg: told you'll be eternally tortured for some minor transgression unless you pray to this petty, capricious father figure in the sky), and kept in the dark about the realities of the world by the only people in your life you thought you could trust with absolute certainty, I have a very hard time faulting them for being incredibly harsh in opposition.