To some of the comments:
When a black person does a bad thing, we never question their blackness. If an LGBTQ+ person does a bad thing, we never question their LGBTQ±ness. If a Muslim does a bad thing, we never question their Muslimness.
If a Christian does a bad thing, they’re not a Christian. If they’re rich, we bring up the parts of the Bible about how the rich won’t get to heavens. If they’re hateful, we bring up Christ’s love. If they’re violent, we bring up the “other cheeck” line.
We need to stop whitewashing Christianity, and realize the evil its capable of in the wrong hands. That’s how we got the dominionist cult into the most powerful country, and that’s how we got Putin, Orbán, etc., and will continue to get others if we dont change our outlook on things.
He finally realized he was gonna die and its important that someone forgives him for the harm he has caused. Not his victims. That would be absurd. Just the invisible sky wizard.
His daughter already said he is atheist, he even made jokes about one monotheist religion in particular
Cool, why don’t you go introduce yourself to him. We don’t need you here.
When was he an “atheist hero”?
Before he publicly shared his political views. Redditors used to simp for him.
I definitely remember that, but it was more about saving humanity and being an interplanetary species and stuff. I don’t recall anything specifically referring to his religious/spiritual beliefs or him being an atheist leader, icon, hero, etc, like Dawkins or Harris. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t, I could have missed it, but personally this is the first time I’ve seen him connected to atheism so that’s why I’m a little confused. And sadly I’ve kept a close eye on him over the years because sometimes my job involves interfacing with one of his companies. I don’t love it.
People are saying that didn’t happen, but I genuinely remember when I would constantly see sentiment that he would save the human race back in like, 2012?
It was a majority opinion in tech and liberal circles.
Yeah, I remember all that, I just don’t remember him being part of the “new atheist” group that was popular around that time. Mostly it was the cars and “colonizing” Mars…nothing to do at all with religion or lack thereof, really.
Seriously, he at best seemed questionably okay 10+ years ago.Then he turned out to be a giant piece of shit, an unintelligent, horribly cliche villain from an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
Fired his P.R. team and went from Tony Stark to a somehow worse Justin Hammer.
