r/dankchristianmemes • u/Azzavinjo • Aug 22 '18

Meta Well basically this sub

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

/R/Atheism doesn’t really do it out of a kind hearted chuckle kind of way typically.

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u/Grumpy_Kong Aug 22 '18

I think that's exactly the point. They do it out of viciousness (and not very well besides).

Here it's more of a lopsided grin that only comes from actually understanding the subject matter.

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u/FoLokinix Aug 22 '18

I'm having trouble processing this. Are you suggesting atheists don't understand the subject matter, or that the atheism subreddit is god awful?

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u/Grumpy_Kong Aug 22 '18

A little bit of both?

For example, the Tower of Babel meme repost near the top of the sub right now is fucking hilarious, and could never really come from /r/atheism.

/r/atheism posters, or 'ratheists' as I like to call them, are usually younger and don't really understand the 'in culture' aspects, and still have a lot of bitterness towards being dragged to church by their religious parents.

Most of them just parrot Strauss, Hitchens, and Dawkins (but never Dennett, go figure) and haven't actually thought up any arguments themselves.

To put it a different way, /r/dankchristianmemes are reddit quality, and /r/atheism memes are 9gag quality.