deepfriedtwinkie reblogged
The thing that I hate about atheism as a movement is that it doesn’t just want to critique the hegemony of Western Christianity, it wants to kill spirituality. There is no joy, there is nothing about it that isn’t founded in a pessimism that sees itself as so self-important that it cannot exist outside of destruction. The face of atheism is a white male disgruntled ex-Christian who decided that if he can’t find joy in religion, then nobody else can. There’s a leftover missionary sensibility to “enlighten” people to atheism that exposes itself as racist, antisemitic, and islamophobic, that’s ultimately not unlike the dominance exerted through colonial Christianity
#this#thank you#like as soon as I hear Christian I think ''well there's a 50/50 chance you're a bigot or a preachy asshole or both''#but as soon as I hear atheist I think ''oh okay so you're DEFINITELY an asshole gotcha''#because how arrogant do you have to be to assume you know for absolute certain that there's nothing more to the universe#like you're so fucking special and such a genius that you ~know~#oh okay glad you're on the universal council you special marvel you; what an ambassador to us puny mortals you are#and the whole fucking thing is shitting on other people's beliefs that literally don't hurt you at all#I dunno how someone voluntarily aligns themselves with something that exists purely to be negative#and CONDESCENDING - my GOD the condescension#like everyone who dares to believe in something is a silly infant#when actually anyone brave enough to put faith in something they can't see has ten times the courage of anyone judging them#but anyway#also me