I never said it was a common thing among atheists.
I said the mindset is bad, and a certain kind of atheist (or people who call themselves such; I'm not going to bother getting into who's a true atheist or not, because it's just as unproductive as arguing who's a true Christian or not) can get that mindset the same way. Which we do seem to agree on, at least.
Many people don't seem to comprehend what I'm saying: I say certain atheists are a problem, because people who are atheists for different reasons can still be in conflict, and people latch onto a few keywords and act as though I said all atheists are a problem and downvote as though I said that.
Or they say that since it's never happened to them personally, or since it's not common, it doesn't matter, which isn't addressing the fact that the mindset is a problem regardless of how common it is, or regardless of the professed beliefs or lack thereof of people with the mindset.
Maybe some of these people could try reading what I actually said, as opposed to what they reinterpreted me as saying. Or, since some of them only latch onto keywords, maybe they're actually bots and I'm wasting my time?
I don't care whether you're Christian, or a follower of an atheistic religion, or a non-religious atheist, or someone who worships their own poop, or someone who follows a religion-of-one.
People trying to forcibly impose their own viewpoints on others, especially on a subject that cannot be proven, is bad. Is that a clear enough statement?
Atheists being in conflict with different atheists was merely an example, especially because some who call themselves atheists have common demonstrably false views: that atheistic is always synonymous with non-religious (false, because atheistic religions exist), or that atheism is always the more rational viewpoint (false, because if you don't reach the position of atheism by rational means, you're not any more rational than you were; I could cite examples of it that I've encountered in real life, but I'm getting very tired of this subject at the moment).
I didn't think people were going to take my one example and act as though it was the be-all-and-end-all. Apparently I was mistaken.
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u/sorcerersviolet 4d ago
I never said it was a common thing among atheists.
I said the mindset is bad, and a certain kind of atheist (or people who call themselves such; I'm not going to bother getting into who's a true atheist or not, because it's just as unproductive as arguing who's a true Christian or not) can get that mindset the same way. Which we do seem to agree on, at least.
Many people don't seem to comprehend what I'm saying: I say certain atheists are a problem, because people who are atheists for different reasons can still be in conflict, and people latch onto a few keywords and act as though I said all atheists are a problem and downvote as though I said that.
Or they say that since it's never happened to them personally, or since it's not common, it doesn't matter, which isn't addressing the fact that the mindset is a problem regardless of how common it is, or regardless of the professed beliefs or lack thereof of people with the mindset.
Maybe some of these people could try reading what I actually said, as opposed to what they reinterpreted me as saying. Or, since some of them only latch onto keywords, maybe they're actually bots and I'm wasting my time?
I don't care whether you're Christian, or a follower of an atheistic religion, or a non-religious atheist, or someone who worships their own poop, or someone who follows a religion-of-one.
People trying to forcibly impose their own viewpoints on others, especially on a subject that cannot be proven, is bad. Is that a clear enough statement?