/lit/ - Literature

>>23243350
A lot of the cringe the New Atheists who posted on Reddit came from taking themselves too seriously and ironically turning into pig-headed circle jerk, which is what they claimed to be against. I'm not sure being too "militant" is the problem as much as the failure to be self-deprecating and make fun of yourself. I am Fedora Man. The scientific argument about God is also boring compared to critiquing the content of religions, which may be exoterically pacifist but esoterically obsessed with redeeming the world or demonizing enemies as wicked while undergirding global war at unprecedented scale.

New Atheists also became too focused on debating believers, which is probably a waste of time. They were idealists, so therefore religious people have the wrong ideas and are stupid, when the materialists would say that religion may be "wrong" but the very idea of religion as important or something that works is because of suffering in reality such that it creates the need for the person to escape reality, so rather than debate all these ideas for 1,000 years like all those philosophers, it's better to focus on eliminating the material base of religion (which will probably take a long time anyways, until death is overcome by synthetic modifications there will always be some people trying to cheat death by praying to a false god).

Also even in a institution as atheistic as the CCP, it's still notable that political leaders' funerals still have some of them considering that being burned into ashes or dumped into rivers and oceans can bring them back later in a mysterious way. Despite being Marxists, they still "have to deal with Fengshui first to make sure the location and setting fit Fengshui:"
https://youtu.be/6Bwlng-Wffk

Hitchens would also like to say that Western religions meanwhile were, after all, our first attempt at philosophy, understanding the world, and that is obviously attested to by great libraries and monasteries, as it is with cathedrals, and which also kept alive the ideas of the Greek philosophers and retransmitted them. He just claimed that religion can no longer perform that function.

Here's a question, if God exists and he's a nice guy and heaven is waiting for those who suck his D, then why don't theists just kill themselves to ascend to heaven 80 years earlier? The short answer is that almost every religion on the planet comes up with some theological (=retarded) theories (=BS) for condemning suicide or arguing that won't get you a ticket into heaven they claim to exist is because they're lying.

This board has been gloating about the death of atheism in the West and then the Supreme Court gave the OK for fundie states to ban abortion, which is exactly what we needed to launch New Atheism 2. Also the religious bloodletting in Palestine might lead some to reconsider this religious nonsense. Just wait until the Jews sacrifice some of those red cows. Atheist bros, we're so back.
https://youtu.be/9d4ui9q7eDM

>>23113282
Call me the Bronze Age Libtard