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taiyang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To be fair, athiests in general should be migrating to Lemmy. So far it’s been a better community and I no longer feel like the butt of Reddit stereotype jokes.
We might also get censored here, but fediverse gives even the most fringe views a home (as evidenced by recent fediverse drama). And if that happened, we can always make a dedicated athiest instance, similar to how communists all have their own instance. It’s important for ex-thiests to have a support system to help deprogram weird shit they learned as children.
Nah, there are plenty of atheists that love licking the capitalist boot that exploits and oppresses them. Hell, that’s just modern libertarianism.
It doesn’t take an intelligent person to recognize the invisible man in the sky judging you horseshit for what it is.
how to make one?
!atheism@lemmy.world
no i meant making an specific instance eg: lemmygrad
Can’t think of a reason why you would, but you do you.
It’s just a matter of running the software on a server and configuring it
Thanks, already subscribed. ;P
My only real problem so far is seeing a community called “Religious Cringetards”. Not big on seeing “tards”.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The thing is that “atheism” seems to moreso mean that kind of militant atheist, the ones that treat atheism as a religion by itself (failing to see the irony) and push it onto others. Forcing atheism onto another is the same as forcing christianity or judaism onto another, and making fun of religious nutjobs is not something exclusive to atheism. The term has gotten some bad connotations because of that. Personally when I see the term “atheist” my first thought is “neo-theist loser with a grudge against psychological/spiritual comforts,” and I’m not of faith myself.
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not talking about like… brigading or conversion stuff. To use an example from my own life, I (ironically) teach at a Catholic university and, on occasion, a student who is questioning their faith will bring it up to me because it tends to come up that I’m atheist. At that point, it’s not a matter of forcing anything on people, it’s a matter of giving support to someone who is going to have a really hard time dealing with their family, friends, and school. Online communities are great for that.