I’ve said it a few times but mostly to fuck with a few friends of mine who are kinda hippies and love prattling on about “love” and “spirituality” and that kind of crap. I get it’s a dumb argument but it’s good to get a rise out of people who believe in woo woo shit.
I can understand the desire to do that (I've done it before too), but that said, I think a lot of :reddit-logo: New Atheist types take that too far and make it the defining feature of their chosen personality, the kind of person to say "GOD'S NOT REAL!" during a funeral (or at least fantasize about saying that) to dunk on the normies, only to feel so much ennui and lack of purpose and existential dread that they eventually stumble back into woo by way of :jordan-eboy-peterson: and call it "cultural Christianity" or maybe join a "singularity" cult.
Fwiw I call myself a cultural christian because it feels dishonest to say I have no affiliation with a religion. The primary religion I’ve rejected is christianity and yet my morality is still fundamentally christian because that’s how I was raised. That’s a real different relationship from my relationship with Buddhism, for example.
That's nice. That doesn't quite sound like the Richard Dawkins (or his :reddit-logo: fandom) version of "cultural Christianity" that more or less likes the authoritarian, colonial, and patriarchal side of WASP culture and don't want the inconvenience of the rebel rabbi that said to be nice to neighbors, strangers, and poor people.
Those types carry quite a bit of woo with them too, especially when it comes to white supremacist pseudoscience and "menz are logical, feeemalez are not" biotruths.
He declared he was exactly that: culturally Christian. It was part of his descent into chuddery around the same time as the "Dear Muslima" letter. If you want your day to be less pleasant, feel free to look that up.
yeah but Dawkins is one of those people that is actually just a petty mean spirited person that talks a lot of shit to justify themselves. Like Peterson
Everything he says he thinks can basically be ignored as he's making it up as he goes to justify being so unpleasant
I only really use the it's just chemicals argument against the annoying "these drugs are showing me the universe man" hippies. But I mainly find them annoying as they are really boring to talk to as they regularly chemically remove their ability to tell when what they are saying is boring
I’ve said it a few times but mostly to fuck with a few friends of mine who are kinda hippies and love prattling on about “love” and “spirituality” and that kind of crap. I get it’s a dumb argument but it’s good to get a rise out of people who believe in woo woo shit.
I can understand the desire to do that (I've done it before too), but that said, I think a lot of :reddit-logo: New Atheist types take that too far and make it the defining feature of their chosen personality, the kind of person to say "GOD'S NOT REAL!" during a funeral (or at least fantasize about saying that) to dunk on the normies, only to feel so much ennui and lack of purpose and existential dread that they eventually stumble back into woo by way of :jordan-eboy-peterson: and call it "cultural Christianity" or maybe join a "singularity" cult.
Fwiw I call myself a cultural christian because it feels dishonest to say I have no affiliation with a religion. The primary religion I’ve rejected is christianity and yet my morality is still fundamentally christian because that’s how I was raised. That’s a real different relationship from my relationship with Buddhism, for example.
There’s no woo involved
That's nice. That doesn't quite sound like the Richard Dawkins (or his :reddit-logo: fandom) version of "cultural Christianity" that more or less likes the authoritarian, colonial, and patriarchal side of WASP culture and don't want the inconvenience of the rebel rabbi that said to be nice to neighbors, strangers, and poor people.
Those types carry quite a bit of woo with them too, especially when it comes to white supremacist pseudoscience and "menz are logical, feeemalez are not" biotruths.
Ah I wasn’t familiar with Dawkins’ claim to the term, but I’m not surprised there’s bioessentialism at the end of that path
He declared he was exactly that: culturally Christian. It was part of his descent into chuddery around the same time as the "Dear Muslima" letter. If you want your day to be less pleasant, feel free to look that up.
yeah but Dawkins is one of those people that is actually just a petty mean spirited person that talks a lot of shit to justify themselves. Like Peterson
Everything he says he thinks can basically be ignored as he's making it up as he goes to justify being so unpleasant
I mostly don't say things if their only point is to upset my friends
Well you don’t know me or these people or anything about the rapport I have with them so perhaps don’t make judgements.
If they were seriously bothered by my mild ribbing I assume they would stop being friends with me.
I only really use the it's just chemicals argument against the annoying "these drugs are showing me the universe man" hippies. But I mainly find them annoying as they are really boring to talk to as they regularly chemically remove their ability to tell when what they are saying is boring