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The hate comes exclusively from the Christian. The hate all nonbelievers and are well documented in slaughtering large numbers of *different* believers.

And before you cite some whataboutism for atheist atrocities, those are always done in the name of state or science, the big religious replacements of our age. The atheist has no instructions to eliminate anyone in particular for not believing in something. We’d rather talk it over.

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>Bakker also created one based on our current times, with buttrape and nihilism, destruction and ultimate death. As much as I love the world Bakker created, I can't help reflect on the sheer difference 70-80 years make for the fantasy genre.
In the times of Tolkien there wasn't a singificant chance that the world as we know will literally end during the author's lifetime. His Dagor Dagorath is what we, today, are preparing for. Within 30 years the societies, countires and their citizens as we know them will be utterly irreconcilable with ours. Automation and higher standards of living will be but a passing moment somewhere soon, far greater impact shall have artificial intelligency that can do whatever we can but better, from art to writing, even beautiful religious writings that will resonate with you far more than anything human can make. Will Earth be some sort of Zoo, where humans are taken care of by the Artificial Gods? Or are we approaching our Great Filter?

Making children no longer serves any purpose but enjoyment for raising another being, msot fo the time merely a fullfilment of breeding instinct. There is no actual retirement to look forwards to, no grandchildren to look for, no planting trees for the future generations as there aren't any trees that you can plant. Any good and productive behaviour you could have taken will be almost certainly rendered useless very soon.

There is nothing to do, nothing to strive for except for these last few challenges you can overcome within the next 20 years. Then it's more or less over. No apocalypse to kill you, but a world where meaning no longer exists because there are barely any ways to create it, and no real reason to make the effort.

Why is Cyberpunk dead as a genre? Because we are more or less already living in a dystopian world where corporations have extreme influence over what you consume, how and what the media are saying about that consuming. So reading about it practically pointless, as it is not fiction, there is no distance created by the setting.

Sorry for schizo monologue, but thoughts like that been cooking in my head of late and had to get it out. Probably should write some book about fantasy world reminiscent of those epic fantasies where heroes won and changed the entire world, but the story itself being about how the true paradise is coming and how the consequences will change the humanity.

As far as I know, only Worth the Candle seriously tackled issues like these.