@lack New thread. This one isn’t a question of why you are an atheist - different question. Why has atheism never (really) been a thing until recent history? Surely there were philosophical and scientific geniuses in prehistoric civilization and in the ancient world - they discovered fire, invented writing, invented the wheel, discovered how to cultivate plants and domesticated beasts of burden. They did this while performing excruciating manual labor, under constant privation (by modern …
@lack Atheism didn’t really become a thing at the civilizational and cultural level until the anti-clericalism of the French Revolution and the Cult of Reason. Even then, the Cult of Reason went out of fashion quickly, and they brought in a Cult of the Supreme Being (basically, Enlightenment Deism, Watchmaker creationism without any messiah or prophets) as I understand it.
@b_chocolatey @lack
Seems like the whole push for atheism has been nothing more than a social engineering psyop to install the new faith if sciencism and consumerism
At the top of the power structure there are few (possibly no) atheists. They may "worship" the light of knowledge (apex of modern science technology etc), deities, or one god. But they "worship" something.
But if someone doesn't bow at some alter or another, the gubmint will gladly fill that "higher power" gap
@MtnStateNomad @lack that may be true to an extant, but the Current Thing seems to have moved on from atheism to what can better be called the #woke #religion. There is only so much mischief you can do with atheist NPCs. “Hate whitey, loot Walmart, stop using normal words, cut your dick off” doesn’t quite fly with engineering grads, for the most part. Atheist true-believers from the upper class actually like math, logical debate, freedom of speech, and object permanence
