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2026-05-07 08:11 UTC

@Tattie@eldritch.cafe I feel that's a fate a lot of vocal atheists share, or a lot of converts, as well. They shed the specifics of a faith, and at some point stop to chase its roots and thought patterns. They merely redecorate. Their god becomes science, for example, that they believe in - when science should end the necessity for belief within the limits covered. Our Western(tm) society is one that is deeply influenced by the Christian patterns of thought: hierarchical, patriarchical, conditional, transactional, and Dawkins shows all of that. While he has indeed thrown out all the old decorations of faith, he kept all the infrastructure. Of course an LLM chatbot will work on that well. It's purpose is extracting the users intent, and then filling that form with an averaged mush of training material. A role that a decidedly Christian society knows already as female, and with his unsettled biases, Dawkins names it as such.

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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-05-07 08:39

@thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone I think even in my angry atheist stage I always saw organised religion as a vector for injustice, and not the actual form of it. I remember arguing with other atheists that "yeah, but, plenty of horrible things have been done by secular governments too, even ones that are anti-religious", and the sheer mental gymnastics that prompted in response. Everything could be traced back to religion, I was told, and if we got rid of that, all injustice would somehow evaporate. That's an unfounded belief that struck me as ironically cultlike.

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