atheism a branch of Protestantism
say what? (didn’t watch the video, so maybe this is isn’t necessarily the conclusion)
I grew up in a minimally Protestant home but figured out my own lack of belief from an interest in science. Never looked back. So imagine there are people from other religious backgrounds who go through analogous philosophical changes.
It isn’t, but I am convinced you can tell which sect atheists used to be in by how they act. Ex-evangelicals tend to over-proselytise, some of them also keep the evangelical RWA attitudes. I’m ex liberal CofE, so these attitudes are a red flag.
FWIW, I am Christian, and cannot understand a word that comes out of these idiots’ pie-holes. There is no support in Jesus’ words for the vile hate that they spew. He was just a brown-skinned, middle eastern socialist Jew, and MAGAts would hate him on sight.
That’s interesting. Are there any any tell-tale signs of a second (or greater) generation Atheist, someone who was brought up by nonbelieving parents? Or do they just get a diluted version of the residual effects from both parents?
waves hand that’s me, my parents got a mix of Catholic and CoE upbringing, but wanted nothing to do with it by the time I was born.
I honestly don’t know. Probably a diluted version if the parents are non-proselytising atheists.
The short answer is no, but
Modern western athiesm emerged in the Protestant milieu,
Both try to rid themselves of unfounded and/or unnecessary traditions,
Both include tendencies which emphasize literal interpretations of religious texts, and see literary and allegorical interpretations as weaker.
Jesus fuck, this is absolutely fucked.
Hmmm; my parents were sort of spiritual but agnostic, my father was a member of the Spiritualist Church when he was a child and teen in England, but he broke from them after becoming an adult. My mother was raised in the United Church (I think it’s like the Episcopalian Church in the U.S.), but was not attending church by the time she got married. They were very casual about churches and religion, but did insist that my sister and I attend church (United Church) for at least a couple of years so that we’d know what it was about and would have the information we needed to make up our own minds. As a similarly semi-spiritual agnostic leaning more to atheism as I get older, my attitude is “you do you”. So my casual attitude and lack of evangelism may have been absorbed from my parents.
Yeah, no shit.
Wasn’t trying to be glib, so sorry if it came off that way… Just… yeah, he’s not a believer.
But as to the content, it’s interesting that she took this side-trip through the transhumanist movement and found it wanting… but I guess I’m not convinced of the Max Weber argument, “just go to church”… that’s just not going to satisfy everyone. Maybe we need something “spiritual” in our lives, but they can be any number of ways to think about that, and that’s likely to be contextual as much as anything…
Trump believes in God. Talks to him every morning too. In the mirror.
