• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Well the most common sect is the people that have been harmed by a religion. Usually childhood trauma. They were raised in religion and want a similar group to express their anger over the trauma they experienced. They have extreme hatred for their former religion but usually tolerance and even respect for religions besides the one they were hurt by. You can usually spot this sect because they have an encyclopedic knowledge of scriptures and spend a lot of time pointing out paradoxes in them. These people’s thoughts are dominated by God more than most religious people.

      Another sect is the science vs. religion sect. They see religion as an adversary to science because they misunderstand both religion and science. They confuse theory with fact, they think God can’t co-exist with evolution, etc. Since they consider science to be a belief system they tend to be bad scientists. Science requires skepticism and curiosity which contradicts their dogmatic view of science. These people worship Richard Dawkins. Sometimes Charles Darwin, even though Darwin believed in God. But the fact that Jesus was a Jew doesn’t prevent Christians from hating Jews, religion is just weird like that.

      Another sect is the Communist sect. They believe in an apocalyptic end times as Karl Marx prophesied. This is the most fundamentalist sect, most likely to commit violence. In fact more deaths have been caused by this one sect of atheism than by all other religions combined. Most atheists don’t consider it to be a sect of atheism because it’s ideology. Ideology is a set of morals and beliefs on how a society should be structured, nothing at all like a religion, right? They worship the man with the big beard that gave them their prophecy.

      But all atheists share a common belief that their religious bigotry is different from the bigotry of other religions because “atheism is not a religion.” The think of themselves as free-thinkers that figured out things about religion that other people are to dumb to understand. But fail to apply the same criticism to their own beliefs because they think aren’t beliefs is “reality.” Don’t understand that’s how every religion works. Atheist groups are generally about expressing ignorant hatred towards other religions.