archive of the mentioned NYT article
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In this case it sounded like a bunch of amoral assholes on 4chan tried to trick a vulnerable individual to kill themselves. A religion that operated like that would not be able to sustain itself and spread.
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Yet, amoral assholes tricking vulnerable people with tales of magic is how religion spreads.
10 points
No it isn’t you idiot. But please continue to spout 90s era New Atheism propaganda as if it will change anyone’s minds at this point.
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Nit: “New Atheism” was the decade after that. Gary Wolf coined the term in a Wired story from 2006.
9 points
of course they’re one of these
how did you imagine this was gonna go?
- you show up in a community you don’t participate in and post low-quality edgelord atheist horseshit that doesn’t have anything to do with what you replied to
- one of the regulars calls you out on your weird bullshit
- you report them for breaking a rule that doesn’t exist and I go “uhhhh ok!” and they’re the one that gets banned for some reason???
